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The reporting shows the intensity of the pressure the journalists were under from student activists who believe photos cause trauma — which is the core of the problem. https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/1194703889783758860
The problem is the ideology that leads them to believe what they do and thus to behave as they do — in ways that cannot coexist with a free press.
Because this danger comes from within the institutions that are supposed to sustain a public sphere, it is a much more direct threat than anything coming from without
By framing her own reporting as largely mitigating blame for the student journalists, the reporter accepts the ideology driving the protesters as a given — but it’s that ideology that is the true agent here
This framing is how cardinal institutional values get eroded and subverted from within — leading to small capitulations followed by large ones: exactly the mirror image of the process that has all Republicans lining up behind Trump
