Sometimes, it's just obvious the media are taking-the-piss out of their dwindling readers!
Quote:Guardian offers counselling to staff after ‘upsetting’ Trump election resultArchived Telegraph Article:
Newspaper’s editor says publication will redouble effort to hold president-elect to account
'The Guardian is offering counselling to staff as it vowed to support its workforce after Donald
Trump’s “upsetting” US election victory this week.
In an email to staff, The Guardian’s editor Katharine Viner said the election had “exposed alarming
fault lines on many fronts” and urged journalists based in the UK to contact colleagues in the US
“to offer your support”.
Ms Viner said that the result would be “upsetting for many others”, according to the memo seen
by Guido Fawkes, adding: “If you want to talk about it, your manager and members of the leadership
team are all available, as the People team.
There is also free access to free support services, which I’ve outlined at the end of this email.”
It comes after Ms Viner sought to reassure readers over the election outcome, writing in an editorial
on Wednesday that the paper would “stand up to four more years of Donald Trump” and that the
election was an “extraordinary, devastating moment in the history of the United States”.
Ms Viner added: “With Trump months away from taking office again – with dramatic implications for
wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the health of American democracy, reproductive rights, inequality
and, perhaps most of all, our collective environmental future – it’s time for us to redouble our efforts
to hold the president-elect and those who surround him to account.”
Above an invitation to donate to The Guardian, her editorial ended with the message that the paper
“will stand up to these threats, but it will take brave, well-funded independent journalism. It will take
reporting that can’t be leaned upon by a billionaire owner terrified of retribution from a bully in the
White House.”
A Guardian spokesman said on Thursday: “What you refer to as ‘therapy after Trump result’ is actually
our employee assistance programme – a function that any responsible international media organisation
has available for staff at all times.”
In the US, some colleges have given students time off, an extension on deadlines, art therapy classes
and access to a therapy duck in response to Trump’s win. The University of Oregon told students this
week that to “promote well-being and lessen anxiety during election week, University Health Services
is bringing Quacktavious the Therapy Duck to campus”.
Students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy were reportedly told this week
that they could play with Lego, colouring books and drink milk and cookies in “self-care suites”
following the result.
The University of Michigan is also hosting an “art therapy” and “post-election processing” event.
Some stores in the US even closed on Wednesday, with Iowa retailer The Collective writing on its
Instagram page that it was closing to allow for a “day of collective grief”.
Among the overseas reaction was Germany’s popular weekly Die Zeit, which led its website on
Wednesday with the one-word expletive “F---”...'
Then there's this:
Quote:EXCLUSIVE: Staggering leaked messages show BBC staff in meltdown at Trump win:Archived GB News Article:
‘The Annoying Orange won’
'...“Somehow I knew this was coming and yet I'm still disappointed”, one BBC employee wrote
on an internal communications channel, seen by this broadcaster.
Another wrote: “For those of you have only just woken up, the Annoying Orange has just won the
election”.
In a series of leaked messages a BBC worker admitted “that Trump winning is generally
considered A Bad Thing” while others expressed their dismay at the Republican’s election
victory using a series of emojis, including crying symbols...'
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