Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ...
by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:03PM
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> Grandstanding politicians are one thing.
But that's what's got me so depressed over the past 5 years or so. It used to be, in the not too distant past, that politicians were embarrassed to be caught in an easily demonstrable lie or stupid gaffe.
These days they just yell "fake news", repeat the lie/gaffe louder and more frequently (which is EXACTLY what the governor is doing on Twitter [1]), perhaps maybe pair it with a catchy slogan, and that seems to be a winning strategy.
1. https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129
Getting a prosecutor to risk their career on prosecuting a journalist for politics is quite a bit more difficult. Journalists are well aware of their rights, and have lawyers between them and law enforcement.
I think its dumb, but as a former photojournalist who had a very large oil company (Haliburton) use a very small police department to come after me for trespassing, I can assure you that the newsroom is NOT scared right now.