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Journalists continue to be targets, metaphorical and real

Stephanie Sy , Yahoo News • December 22, 2017     Honoring the memory and sacrifice of journalists killed in 2017 Honoring the memory and sacrifice of journalists killed in 2017 Yahoo News Video Scroll back up to restore default view. In 2017, attacks on the news media started at the top, with President Trump routinely using the bully pulpit to call out unfavorable coverage of his administration as “fake news,” and mainstream news organizations as “the enemy of the American people.” The president’s verbal assaults on journalists concerned press freedom advocates — from the U.N.’s human rights chief, who warned the president’s words could lead to “incitement for others to attack journalists,” to David Frum, a senior editor at the Atlantic  who wrote that  Trump’s words “are a direct attack on … international journalists’ freedom and ...