Attacks on media raise threat of violence against reporters, UN experts warn

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Sabrina Siddiqui and David Smith
Washington
Thu 2 Aug 2018 14.52 EDT

... In a joint statement, two experts on freedom of expression – David Kaye, who was appointed by the UN human rights council, and Edison Lanza, who holds the corresponding position at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, said: “These attacks run counter to the country’s obligations to respect press freedom and international human rights law.”

Trump’s attacks “are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts”, they added, while noting the president “has failed to show even once that specific reporting has been driven by any untoward motivations”.

“We are especially concerned that these attacks increase the risk of journalists being targeted with violence” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/02/donald-trump-un-media-press-freedom-journalist-danger

[cloudbase]

1. Masters of the obvious. n/t

[Blue_true]

2. The Franfenstine that the media created now wants to eat them.

They could have chosen to cover Hillary fairly and honestly, they did not. Of all Americans, they as a group deserve Trump.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R