“They don’t just see us as hacks or liars, which is really bog standard these days; they see us as part of this conspiracy to lie to them about the vaccines, and lie about what’s really going on.” @Justin_Ling twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxP…
On the difficulty this hate and suspicion presents to reporting practices: “How the hell can I request comment from someone who thinks I should be summarily arrested and put in prison?” @Justin_Ling
"One interesting thing I've seen in the crowd is other people in that crowd intervening and trying to bring the temperature down. ... When you start talking to [people calling you "fake news"], it becomes a reasonable conversation." @MercedesGlobal
"We've taken our branding off of everything. We've started taking different routes into and out of work. ... We've chosen to downgrade [cameras].

"We try not to look like an overt camera crew because it can draw attention." @MercedesGlobal
"This has been a very surreal experience for me. I've lived in Ottawa my entire life. ... It's totally surreal to me to need security to report in my hometown." @R_SPatel
On the normalization of hatred toward journalists: "I've noticed that net is getting wider with this story [COVID]." @R_SPatel
"I received my first death threat in the fall. ... It's completely unacceptable. It's very scary.

"We have to call it out, we have to educate, we have to keep telling the truth." @Songstress28
"This is a threat toward democracy; this is a threat toward everybody's freedoms." @Songstress28 twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxP…
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@DesmondCole on the flawed notion of objectivity: "The media, specifically the corporate media, does support the liberal-democratic norms of Canadian society. ... Taking the police at their word is not objective."
@DesmondCole: "If you work at a corporate shop, your boss is going to want you to work with the police; your boss is going to want you to take the police at their word; your boss is going to want you to get the opinion of the people who would shout you down in the street."
@DesmondCole @judyatrinh on the siloing of media: "What are you going to turn to when you don't have a community newspaper? ... Look at all the journalists we have covering Parliament Hill.

"I would give anything for more coverage of communities on the outskirts."
@judyatrinh: Reporters need to be advocating for reporting outside the major centres "so that people see us, and we have a presence—so we are trusted."
@judyatrinh "Political journalists, our job is to hold people who have an enormous amount of power to account. ... without doing it in a false way that's protecting our own power structure." @EvanLSolomon
Failures of government data sharing has given the impression that media are "complicit" or lying, says @MercedesGlobal. "You know what? Yeah, we were very frustrated with that, too."
"When I leave Wellington Street, [harassment] doesn't end. It follows me home. ... We need to figure out how to put long-term measures in place." @R_SPatel
"I don't think people realize how much work we're doing on our own personal time to keep each other safe and protected. I don't think newsroom managers realize." @R_SPatel

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