The Leftist Media Are Shocked to be Attacked by Antifa

When Andy Ngo, photojournalist at the online magazine Quillette, was put in the ER, most of the press ignored it. Not all. Don Surber: You were warned, media

Gagliano wrote, "The viral images are sickening. Andy Ngo, a photojournalist and editor at the online magazine Quillette, who has made a cottage industry of exposing instances of manufactured hate crimes, was viciously assaulted while covering an Antifa rally held as a counter-protest to a rally of right-wing groups, including the Proud Boys, in Portland, Oregon. Antifa derives from anti-fascist, and is associated with aggressive, hard-left activism. The video shows masked protesters circling Ngo, punching and hitting him and dousing him with a milkshake, then following him as he flees. One hurls something at his back."

But the Leftist media thought that was OK becuase Ngo was guilty of wrong-think.

But now the other shoe had dropped, and the paper that couldn't be bothered to report (much) on the attacks against Ngo, is outraged that they are being attacked.

Five months later, Antifa is still in Portland attacking journalists. Only this time, the journalists are liberal, not conservative.

The Oregonian is most upset.

And they are confused about the difference between "peaceful protests" and "riots and looting." And exactly what protections the First Amendment gives to reporters.

Of course, Portland protesters did not peaceably assemble. They rioted and burned and looted.

And really the only protection the press has is the right to print what it wants. The First Amendment does not give exemption to the law, nor does it make the police the bodyguards of reporters. You cover trouble, expect trouble.

The Oregonian quoted photographer Beth Nakamura of the Oregonian, who said, "We’re completely hamstrung to show a realistic and fully dimensional picture of what’s going on."

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