{"id":16560,"date":"2017-08-30T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16560"},"modified":"2017-08-30T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:43:07","slug":"un-rights-chief-says-trump-may-be-inciting-violence-against-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16560","title":{"rendered":"UN rights chief says Trump may be inciting \u2018violence\u2019 against media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GENEVA Aug 30 (TNS):<\/strong> The UN human rights chief said Wednesday that President Donald Trump\u2019s relentless attacks on the media could trigger violence against journalists, suggesting the US leader would be responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein voiced particular alarm over Trump\u2019s verbal assaults on CNN, the New York Times and Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo call these news organizations \u2018fake\u2019 does tremendous damage and to refer to individual journalists in this way, I have to ask the question, is this not an incitement for others to attack journalists?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd let\u2019s assume a journalist is harmed from one of these organizations, does the president not bear responsibility for this, for having fanned this?\u201d Zeid told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it could amount to incitement,\u201d he added, saying Trump had set in motion a cycle that includes \u201cincitement, fear, self-censorship and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the rights chief, Trump\u2019s assault on the media has emboldened other countries to crack down on press freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demonization of the press is poisonous because it has consequences elsewhere,\u201d Zeid said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed specific concern over Trump\u2019s speech in Arizona earlier this month in which journalists were condemned by the US leader as \u201cdishonest people\u201d who \u201cdon\u2019t like our country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA Aug 30 (TNS): The UN human rights chief said Wednesday that President Donald Trump\u2019s relentless attacks on the media could trigger violence against journalists, suggesting the US leader would be responsible. Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein voiced particular alarm over Trump\u2019s verbal assaults on CNN, the New York Times and Washington Post. \u201cTo call these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[878,19],"tags":[879,733],"class_list":["post-16560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geneva","category-world","tag-geneva","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16562,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560\/revisions\/16562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}