Members of the left-wing group antifa called her a "Slut" and then demanded that journalists assembled to cover the protests "Get the f-- out." Staab, a 2020 reporting fellow for the liberal Pulitzer Center, tried to calm the situation.
No reporter is better known for covering antifa than Andy Ngo, author of the best-selling book "Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy." Ngo, the son of Vietnamese immigrants, first started reporting on protest violence for the Portland State Vanguard, Portland State University's student newspaper, in 2016.
In June of 2019, Ngo was jumped by a crowd of antifa protesters while reporting on a demonstration in the city.
At the same time some antifa protesters assault independent journalists and smash their cameras, she says, radical activists run around protests with PRESS emblazoned on their clothing as a putative "Independent Press Corps" in league with antifa.
Robert Mackey, one of the Intercept article's co-authors, tweeted in response: "These journalists are public figures, already familiar faces on the most-watched prime time shows on the most-watched television news network in America; what is overlooked is how their reporting and video is used by Fox to distort the real scope of violence at BLM protests. ... There have been assaults on some conservative video journalists by left-wing protesters who view them as propagandists, attacks I reported and showed in the video and denounced forcefully in my article. The claim that I intended to promote more attacks is false and repulsive."
Facing similar criticism from the left, Andy Ngo has been dogged by accusations that he should not be treated as a legitimate journalist because critics accuse him of having reported misleading information and not reporting on antifa objectively.
The criticism of Ngo is particularly galling when one considers that his main point of view is that "Political violence is wrong." And while Ngo's nontraditional, social-media-heavy approach to reporting might be disdained by traditional media outlets, he has distinguished himself by authoring a best-selling book on antifa and having a track record of breaking several major stories.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Monday, September 27, 2021
How Antifa beats up journalists and gets by with it
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