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Trolling Is Taking a Toll on Science Journalism

4 pointsby CKMoabout 3 years ago

3 comments

dimensionc132about 3 years ago
&quot;Sadly, online attacks and threats have become the new normal in many newsrooms, with the result being that journalists are subject to a form of mob censorship.&quot;<p>The solution by media outlets is &quot;News outlets might respond to harassment with knee-jerk reactions, like disabling comments on stories or taking down the emails of reporters from their website&quot;<p>so .... censorship?! lol.
arrakis2021about 3 years ago
It’s interesting watch Journalists become a protected class in society.<p>They are always on the side of good and can say whatever they want, but any disagreement with them can be classified as harassment and&#x2F;or trolling.
h2odragonabout 3 years ago
So we&#x27;re allowed to disagree with &quot;journalists&quot; as much as we like, but we can&#x27;t express it directly or publicly or at all I guess.