New York Times Opinion writer:
Thread from a great journalist who routinely embeds w/ hate groups. This doesn't discount that the situation is fucked and that violence should be unacceptable. But there are also serious risks involved with putting yourself in volatile situations. Any journalist should know that https://t.co/KPmaiSrmoM
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) June 30, 2019
Also: this whole event should be seen through the context of what it is…an information war. A number of people who go to these protests are looking for fights or to document them. they're all livestreaming. When tensions boil over, it's meant to be ammunition for a culture war
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) June 30, 2019
Vegas Tenold, journalist who covers “far right extremists” who Charlie Warzel references:
Yeah you lost the plot right about here, Charlie. pic.twitter.com/1b9rRKNCup
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 30, 2019
Huff Post senior reporter Christopher Mathias:
This HuffPost writer @letsgomathias deleted this tweet celebrating Antifa’s “milkshaking” of a journalist.
The milkshakes were lined with quicklime/quick dry concrete mix and produce chemical burns, in addition to being heavy. pic.twitter.com/orQi1ikruv
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 30, 2019
This character, Nathan Bernard, even suggested that Ngo may have somehow been behind his own attack (despite the attack, from multiple Antifa members, being caught on video). And called liberal Tim Pool, “far-right.”
After relentlessly baiting and harassing antifa, far-right provocateur Andy Ngo finally got his wish of being milkshaked. Far-right simpletons like Tim Pool will milk this “victim” story for the next week at least. pic.twitter.com/7thyQ4wESk
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) June 29, 2019
It’s almost as if Andy Ngo knew this was going to happen ? pic.twitter.com/v3TC67kZkB
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) June 30, 2019
Meanwhile, MSM basically ignored the story except for a few comments on Twitter.
Here’s one mention from CNN’s Jake Tapper:
Antifa regularly attacks journalists; it’s reprehensible https://t.co/m8pBaSfomzhttps://t.co/kF1Mx8k8O2https://t.co/HIB88lIY7T https://t.co/fTKVBg17CG
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 29, 2019
But of course, his network colleagues, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, have defended and justified Antifa in the past.