Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readMay 15, 2022

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As politicians are public figures, the media is allowed to expose what they do. It is also accepted practice that publications can have editorials which are opinion.

The 4th estate is necessary in order to keep people informed. Revealing data is not mockery.

You have no moral or ethical right to attack journalists because they expose who or what politicians are.

My late father laid his life on the line everytime he tried to warn the Jews to get out of Germany in the 30s. When the Gestapo came for him in 1936, he was, luckily, in Swizerland. His entire newspaper got shut down by the Nazis. They were put in Auschwitz.

You might read his memoirs 'Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist in Nazi Germany."

By what moral right do you think it's okay for 'politicians supporters' to ridicule journalists because you don't agree with their opinion.

Hitler's henchman certainly didn't agree with my late father's newspaper either.

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