{"id":358457,"date":"2018-04-26T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-associated-press-suggests-criticizing-journalists-is-hate-speech\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T07:16:00","slug":"prison-planet-com-associated-press-suggests-criticizing-journalists-is-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-associated-press-suggests-criticizing-journalists-is-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Associated Press Suggests Criticizing Journalists is \u201cHate Speech\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Blames Donald Trump for hostility towards media<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>April 25, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/250418ap1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Associated Press published an article today suggesting that criticizing journalists was a form of \u201chate speech\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a piece entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hatred-journalists-rise-worldwide-watchdog-says-094115269.html\">Hatred of journalists on the rise worldwide<\/a><\/em>, watchdog says, the AP cites a report by Reporters Without Borders which concludes that people like Donald Trump are to blame for encouraging hostility towards the media.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the group\u2019s concern that leaders in democratic countries \u201cno longer see the media as part of democracy\u2019s essential underpinning,\u201d the article then suggested that journalists were victims of hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate speech targeting journalists is amplified on social networks by government-friendly trolls in India, Russia and elsewhere,\u201d states the article.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chate speech\u201d designation is somewhat bizarre as the term usually only applies to religious, ethnic or racial groups.<\/p>\n<p>While the article blames Trump, trust in mainstream media was plummeting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/176042\/trust-mass-media-returns-time-low.aspx\">years before<\/a> he even announced he was running as president.<\/p>\n<p>Is this another trial balloon to chill free speech? Respondents in the comments section were not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is only expressing our long held beliefs,\u201d remarked one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the most part, in the US anyway, they are not reporters any more. They have become political hacks,\u201d added another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the \u201cjournalists\u201d would stop trying to \u201cchange\u201d the world, and just report the news like they are supposed to they probably wouldn\u2019t be hated so much,\u201d commented another respondent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUBSCRIBE<\/strong> on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>Follow on Twitter: <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @PrisonPlanet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">*********************<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Paul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of <a href=\"http:\/\/infowars.com\/\">Infowars.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/prisonplanet.com\/\">Prison Planet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018  at  7:17 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n      &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/associated-press-suggests-criticizing-journalists-is-hate-speech.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blames Donald Trump for hostility towards media Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comApril 25, 2018 The Associated Press published an article today suggesting that criticizing journalists was a form of \u201chate speech\u201d. In a piece entitled Hatred of journalists on the rise worldwide, watchdog says, the AP cites a report by Reporters Without Borders which concludes that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}