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”.
I’m glad I don’t give The Guardian any of my money if they waste it to coddle employees in this way!
lizziedrip is correct in her assertions about Trump’s threat to journalists and news outlets that disagree with him.
Whether he will carry out these threats remains to be seen but Bezos took it so seriously that he instructed the WP not to support the Democrats as it had done throughout the past decades. Other journalists have expressed alarm as Trump’s threats.
Counselling isn’t ‘limp’ at all, Far from it. However it’s the ‘need’ for this subject matter at hand that is so hilarious.
On another note. I didn't realise Adrian Chiles was married to Katharine Viner (editor of the Guardian) until I looked her up on wiki just now. Every day is a school day.
It's not if you're worried about violence or a convicted sex offender being in the highest office in the world.
Counselling isn’t ‘limp’ at all, Far from it. However it’s the ‘need’ for this subject matter at hand that is so hilarious.
On another note. I didn't realise Adrian Chiles was married to Katharine Viner (editor of the Guardian) until I looked her up on wiki just now. Every day is a school day.
The support for American journalists is being offered because Trump has threatened journalists who disagree with him.
It is not about them being unhappy with the result; it’s about them feeling under threat for doing their job - in a country where every crazy person carries a gun!
Why can’t some on GN get this - just because you loathe the Guardian? Can’t you think beyond this?
Why is it limp to offering counselling? It's just talking to someone to someone who's listening. I was offered it when a young colleague died and that was at 02 so not a lefty organisation.
The Democrats would have absolutely gone after X if they had won. I am afraid they are also a threat to free speech. That is why we have to defend it in a non political way.
WellsRose A lot of people aren’t happy that Trump is back in the White House but he won the election, simple as that and millions of Americans are happy as they voted for him. The Guardian has always been a bit of a limp lettuce of a newspaper and now it’s excelling itself by offering counselling.
So are people who moan on Gransnet about Keir Starmer limp lettuces also.?
People always have a moan when their preferred political party doesn’t win an election then go on to criticise their policies and performance and that’s fine if they don’t like them and find them wanting. I didn’t say that posters on GN were limp lettuces but that I find The Guardian is. We can all moan about DT winning but this thread is actually about The Guardian and their nonsense.