{"id":25692,"date":"2018-12-15T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25692"},"modified":"2018-12-15T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T20:22:31","slug":"why-are-journalists-increasingly-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25692","title":{"rendered":"Why are journalists increasingly targeted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"80\">\n<p><span>Reporters are being threatened, harassed, assaulted, imprisoned and killed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>World leaders often target journalists and news outlets they don&#8217;t agree with, denouncing reporting as &#8220;fake news&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>And amid the heightening threats, dangers and name-calling, polls show the public&#8217;s trust in the news media has plummeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What should be done to reverse this dangerous trend? Who should be responsible to protect journalists? What can be done to restore the public&#8217;s trust in news reporting?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Presenter:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span>Peter Dobbie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Maria Ressa &#8211; CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>David Schlesinger &#8211; Board Member of the Committee to Protect Journalists<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sean Spicer &#8211; Former White House Press Secretary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Lead image: Handout\/Moises Saman\/TIME Inc\/ AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters are being threatened, harassed, assaulted, imprisoned and killed. World leaders often target journalists and news outlets they don&#8217;t agree with, denouncing reporting as &#8220;fake news&#8221;.\u00a0 And amid the heightening threats, dangers and name-calling, polls show the public&#8217;s trust in the news media has plummeted. What should be done to reverse this dangerous trend? Who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}