"Being a Journalist in the Trump Era"

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In this article, the caption below the image was about a police officer standing outside to guard The New York Times building after the shooting at a newspaper in Annapolis, MD. The police department wanted to protect news media organizations from psychos who wanted to do harm to organizations they disagreed with. Miles Howard, the writer of the article went into detail about what it felt like to be a journalist during Trump's presidency. He stated that "It began on the campaign trail, where Donald Trump would take the stage at his rallies and rage against the media to the point where journalists in attendance found themselves harassed by Trump fans and manhandled by his security staff". He followed by saying that, "What Trump did was embolden people who already held a grudge against the media to be more openly contemptuous".  Trump without a doubt did lead his audience into attacking news outlets they believed to be "Fake News". As a matter of fact, that is a phrase Trump has being using since his campaign days and it is one of his most popular phrases. Whatever his goal was, President Trump managed to get conservatives to believe news outlets like CNN, are fake news. 

Link: https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/06/29/anti-media-rhetoric-capital-gazette-miles-howard

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