Journalists report increased threats and harassment at rallies as Trump declares war on ‘the media’http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/journalists-report-increased-threats-and-harassment-at-rallies-as-trump-declares-war-on-the-media/
Reporters confined to the “press pen” — a barricaded area usually at the center of each rally — say that they are increasingly being insulted and harassed by crowd members as Trump sharpens his animus against a media that he believes is deliberately hamstringing his run for the White House.
NBC reporter Katy Tur wrote this week in Marie Claire that after Trump singled her out as a “bad reporter” and called her “Little Katie” at rallies, the Secret Service had to escort her to safety.
“(T)he crowd, feeding off Trump,” she wrote, “seemed to turn on me like a large animal, angry and unchained.”
On Saturday, Sopan Deb of CBS News tweeted, “Yeesh. About five separate instances of people coming up to press pen to tell us how much they hate us (or some variation.)”
On Friday, a Trump supporter in Florida rushed up to the press pen to raise his middle finger and call the assembled journalists “traitors” while repeatedly pointing to himself and shouting, “I am a patriot!
