Last week, John M. Donnelly, a journalist for CQ Roll Call, said he was pinned against a wall by security workers in Washington<br />as he tried to ask a question of Michael P. O’Rielly, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission.<br />Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said the recent episodes were not enough<br />to make any sweeping statements about the way journalists are being treated since President Trump took office.<br />On Wednesday night, Ben Jacobs, a journalist for The Guardian, said he was “body slammed” by Greg<br />Gianforte, a Republican candidate in a special House election, at a campaign event in Montana.<br />“But what’s certainly unprecedented in modern American history is the rhetoric: the way<br />that Trump talks about the media, the constant verbal attacks and the framing of journalists as enemies and purveyors of fake news,” he said.<br />In a recording of the exchange, the sounds of a physical struggle<br />and a crash can be heard, followed by Mr. Gianforte saying: “I’m sick and tired of you guys!”<br />”You just body-slammed me and broke my glasses,” Mr. Jacobs said.<br />It was the last night of a closely watched campaign, and Mr. Jacobs pressed Mr. Gianforte to answer a question about health care.
