Media-Government Complex Puts January 6 Propaganda Into Overdrive as Journalists Cry That They Feel Unsafe

Journalists: We just don't complain about being called mean names, or being "harassed" or "abused" online, enough.

We need to talk about ourselves, our plight, and our bravery more.

Yes, "journalists" are just too reticent to complain about not feeling appreciated enough.

Many journalists have endured years of online harassment and abuse in silence. The industry has become desensitized to these attacks, accepting them as an occupational hazard.

Oh, no -- you get back-sass on twitter.

Can I start a Go Fund Me for your PTSD detriggering therapy?

We see the opportunity to inform a wide audience as a privilege that comes with responsibility -- and you have to have thick skin, we tell ourselves.

You do tend to be well-enough padded, especially around the back, neck, thighs, bellies, buttocks, and backs-of-arms, but I would not call you thin-skinned, no.

The stakes, though, keep getting higher as our society becomes more polarized. Of course, this was most evident on Jan. 6, when Trump supporters attempted a coup at the U.S. Capitol.

Acknowledging the gravity of the moment, Post publisher Fred Ryan honored 38 of our colleagues who covered the Jan. 6 insurrection with The Post's annual Ben Bradlee Award for Courage in Journalism.

They love handing out awards to each other.

I like imagining the media as one long, long line of mutants just handing off one single award from one person to another, one receiving it and giving an acceptance speech, before immediately announcing "Our next winner is..." and then bequeathing it on to the next media shit, just one massive Human Centipede of infinitely recursive narcissism.

The award honored their commitment to carrying out the job in a volatile and dangerous environment...

90% of them have been locked in their homes for two years, using Zoom to show up for work and occasionally masturbate.

...and also acknowledged the tremendous personal risk they took.

The risks they took were mostly of the Twitter Reputational Damage variety.

These journalists need recognition, but they also need care and support. We tend to forget that as an industry.

They stood around and snapped pictures of people rioting.

Which is, by the way, something they will not do with antifa, because antifa, unlike Trump supporters, has threatened journalists and taken reprisals against them for documenting their crimes.

So it falls to real journalists like Andy Ngo to document antifa's crimes, as the media lowers their cameras in fear -- and out of solidarity.

We don't talk enough about the trauma many journalists endure -- in large part because we are not supposed to know about it: Journalists never want to eclipse the subjects and broader themes at the heart of our stories.

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A group of psychopathic narcissists telling you how much they just don't want to be noticed.

LOL.

As in this story-- the thousandth "The media are brave and are The Real Heroes Here and need more applause and approbation" story in the past five years alone.

As journalists covered the insurrection, documenting the most direct threat to our democracy since the Civil War, people hurled threats and insults in their direction. "Murder the media" was scratched into a door of the Capitol. Some in the mob chanted "CNN sucks" as they destroyed equipment owned by the Associated Press.

Oh no -- Not "CNN sucks." Anything but that.

He then goes on to insinuate that a "CNN sucks" chant is just like actual violent attacks on the press in Iran and Mexico.

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Straight from the left's talking points and inserted gleefully into their J6 infotainment headlines, the word of the day is TRAUMA.

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Merry 9/11 + Pearl Harbor X 1000 Eve, everyone.

Meanwhile, the New York Times wants you to remember all the cops who have been injured by rioters the past two years.

Well, it wants you to remember about 20 of them.

The rest of the cops attacked and murdered by antifa and BLM, or by the criminals set free and emboldened by Democrats...?

The hell with them. Justifiable collateral damage in the Holy War.

Blue Lives Don't Matter.

'Historic' 346 officers shot in line of duty in 2021: National Fraternal Order of Police

'Ambush-style attacks' against officers were up 115% in 2021 compared to 2020

A "historic" 346 police officers were shot in the line of duty in 2021 -- 63 of whom were killed, according to the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which represents more than 346,000 U.S. law enforcement officers.

The number of officers shot in the line of duty last year is up from 312 officers shot in 2020, 47 of whom were killed, and 293 shot in 2019, 50 of whom were killed, according to an FOP analysis.

"As we have said before, the recent erosion of respect for law enforcement and anti-police rhetoric has fueled more aggression towards police officers than what has been seen in previous years," FOP President Patrick Yoes told Fox News in a statement.

Below, some Non-Insurrectionist chants.

They're chanting "What do we want? Dead Cops! When do we want them? Now!," but at least that's not as bad as chanting "CNN sucks" at Jim Acosta.

posted by Ace at 03:53 PM

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