<story><title>Reuters&apos; position on covering Trump</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-adlertrump-idUSKBN15F276</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_humean</author><text>So Reuter&amp;#x27;s position is that the media environment in the US is rapidly becoming like illiberal democracies in Egypt, Russia and Iran, and so its time to use skills applicable when operating within typically third world authoritarian regimes. What heart warming times we live in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bredren</author><text>Another way to look at it is their reporters on US press have been caught flat-footed on daily news gathering. They don&amp;#x27;t have the same skills as their non-US counterparts and are rattled.&lt;p&gt;This is a call to arms.  We are facing darkness now, and I believe this will have a lasting impact in what reporters are capable of and willing to do to offer free press.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reuters&apos; position on covering Trump</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-adlertrump-idUSKBN15F276</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_humean</author><text>So Reuter&amp;#x27;s position is that the media environment in the US is rapidly becoming like illiberal democracies in Egypt, Russia and Iran, and so its time to use skills applicable when operating within typically third world authoritarian regimes. What heart warming times we live in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ErikVandeWater</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a very sensationalist way of putting it, especially when they say &amp;quot;Don’t take too dark a view of the reporting environment...&amp;quot;</text></comment>