{"id":50930,"date":"2022-03-16T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50930"},"modified":"2022-03-16T01:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:19:27","slug":"enemy-of-people-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50930","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Enemy of people?&#8217; Hardly!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Let\u2019s take a brief moment \u2014 shall we? \u2014 to ponder the stupid utterance of a former U.S. president who declared on more than one occasion that the media and those who work for them are \u201cthe enemy of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK. Now, let\u2019s juxtapose that stupidity with what we\u2019re hearing from the battlefield in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>We are hearing of casualties being inflicted among journalists who are covering that battle between Ukrainian forces and those from Russia who have invaded their country.<\/p>\n<p>A Fox News Channel reporter is hospitalized after being wounded seriously in an attack that killed one of the producers from that network. Journalists from other news-gathering organizations have been wounded and killed while covering the war for their readers, viewers and listeners back home \u2026 where \u201chome\u201d might be.<\/p>\n<p>The former president is fond of hammering the media for purportedly producing \u201cfake news,\u201d never mind that he also produces fake news simply through his own stupidity, his own lying.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists who thrust themselves into harm\u2019s way to cover world events \u2014 regardless of the danger they pose to those who get too close to the action \u2014 are heroes. Their only \u201cenemy\u201d rests in the hearts and minds who deny \u2014 or denigrate \u2014 the value they bring to a civilized society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a brief moment \u2014 shall we? \u2014 to ponder the stupid utterance of a former U.S. president who declared on more than one occasion that the media and those who work for them are \u201cthe enemy of the American people.\u201d OK. Now, let\u2019s juxtapose that stupidity with what we\u2019re hearing from the battlefield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Enemy of people?&#8217; Hardly!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2858,2978,9899],"class_list":["post-50930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50931,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50930\/revisions\/50931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}