Reuters orders reporters to cover Trump like an authoritarian regime: Expect physical threats

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/reuters-orders-reporters-to-cover-trump-like-an-authoritarian-regime-expect-physical-threats/

The Reuters news agency this week recognized the challenges of covering Donald Trump’s presidency by comparing it to authoritarian regimes like Egypt, Yemen and China.

“It’s not every day that a U.S. president calls journalists ‘among the most dishonest human beings on earth’ or that his chief strategist dubs the media ‘the opposition party’,” Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler wrote in a message to staff on Tuesday. “It’s hardly surprising that the air is thick with questions and theories about how to cover the new Administration.”

He cited the organization’s work in “Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Thailand, China, Zimbabwe, and Russia” as an example of how to report on the Trump administration.

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Among other advice, the news agency pointed out that reporters should “give up on hand-outs and worry less about official access.”

“They were never all that valuable anyway. Our coverage of Iran has been outstanding, and we have virtually no official access. What we have are sources,” the memo said. “Get out into the country and learn more about how people live, what they think, what helps and hurts them, and how the government and its actions appear to them, not to us.”

The letter encouraged reporters to “never be intimidated” by the administration.

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[dalton99a]

1. Or deaths

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/how_trump_will_change_america_predictions.html

How Trump Will Change America
A list of good, bad, ugly, and terrifying predictions.
By Slate Staff

The Fourth Estate: A prominent member of the media will be killed over his or her coverage of the Trump administration.
—Tommy Craggs, Slate politics editor

[randr]

2. Good move

Report the effects of his actions and stop letting him dance in the center ring.

[Lucinda]

3. KNR Thank you!

[uponit7771]

4. I was about to OP this point; Will M$M journalist deaths get them off their asses?!

[wildeyed]

5. Reuters has been, in general, the best coverage.

I have been impressed by their sharp investigative approach and the clean, uncluttered online presences. I cannot even read most news sites due to the number of popups and blinky ads. Not sure how Reuters is paying the rent, but their site design is outstanding.

Here is the bio of the editor. He is no partisan lefty. Spent a bunch of time at Business Week and WSJ.

This is GREAT advice that other news outlets should pay attention to:

Among other advice, the news agency pointed out that reporters should “[g]ive up on hand-outs and worry less about official access.”

They worry WAY too much about access. GWB manipulated the crap out of them with that too. Time to find a new plan if they want to be serious journalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Adler

[SunSeeker]

6. Sad, but necessary. nt

[NastyRiffraff]

7. K&R

About time the MSM grows a spine, or several spines. I hope they all follow Reuters' lead.

[Hekate]

8. Tip of the hat to Reuters

[Hekate]

9. Just downloaded Reuters free app. RawStory repeatedly crashed my page...

....but I certainly appreciate your heads-up, deminks.

[Mc Mike]

10. Intelligent assessment and strategy from Reuters. Thanks, rec, Nt