the reaction, they have absolutely doubled down on their response. they spoke to a reporter. some of them didn t engage at all and blocked him. the ones that did engage just absolutely stood by their comments and they trotted out a lot of the misinformation that you hear all the time. you know, we shouldn t be letting these people in this country, everyone who arrives in the country is getting a free car by priti patel. some of the real nonsense you can see circulating on social media. or even if people are entitled to hold some of those kind of views, it s the sense that, you know, they re revelling in people s deaths, a tragedy? absolutely, because it s actually not the job of the press to police what views people hold, it is ourjob to present the facts and allow people to make an informed decision. rebecca whittington, i m going to bring you in here. you re the new online safety editor at reach. does this sound familiar, this, you know, business about, you know, whether to have
rebecca, readers writing unpleasant things in the comments is one thing, but part of your role as i understand is that you re also looking at the personal abuse thatjournalists now get, and in fact your editor said last month that it s become endemic, and i certainly feel, you know, in my own experience, i would second that. but what do you think this means in practice? well, i mean, reach conducted a survey earlier this year which is one of the reasons i m in this role now, actually, because the survey found that half of the editorial staff who responded were facing personal online abuse, and that also out of those that said that, 85% of them said that it was usually sparked from something that they d published online. and it sjust an endemic problem, and of course actually we want people to be focusing on good journalism, we want them to be able to produce the journalism that they should be producing. and of course, at the moment, some journalists, i think, are feeling unsafe to do t