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  • 2017-12-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Walmart Sell Shirts That Allude to Hanging Journalists? (en)
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  • Amid a climate of hostility toward the mainstream news media from President Donald Trump and some of his supporters, further controversy appeared in November 2017 when the retail giant Walmart was accused of selling a shirt bearing a slogan alluding to hanging journalists: The shirt is real and it was temporarily available for sale on Walmart's online store. It is made by the third-party seller Teespring.com. Walmart removed it on 30 November 2017, a day after the Radio Television Digital News Association (a nonprofit group that represents broadcast and digital journalists) wrote to Walmart executives requesting it be taken down. RTDNA executive director Dan Shelley wrote: As The Hill points out, the same T-shirt first came to national attention when a supporter of Donald Trump was seen wearing it at a rally in Minnesota, two days before the 2016 presidential election: Journalism can be a dangerous business, particularly in countries in which elected officials are openly hostile to reporters. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 48 journalists and eight media workers were confirmed killed as a direct result of their work in 2017 alone. (en)
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