The AP is being targeted by angry Sanders's supporters for calling the nomination for Clinton.

[annavictorious]

While there were no immediate security threats, employees were advised to practice "situational awareness".

And the charm offensive continues.

http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/ap-warns-reporters-after-harassment-from-bernie-sanders-supporters/

http://www.poynter.org/2016/ap-reminds-employees-to-be-vigilant-after-backlash-from-sanders-supporters/415585/

[brush]

1. Some people are nuts. News outlets behave as news outlets.

They compete with other news organizations to break stories first.

The first woman to be the presumptive nominee of a major party is both huge and historic.

It didn't cause Sanders' lost in California. His failure to appeal to POCs did that.

[Corporate666]

2. What an embarassment. Sanders needs to reign in his legion of idiots

These people (not all BS supporters but a large number of them) are behaving like goons.

And why hasn't Sanders put a stop to it or at least clearly disavowed it? He seems to be a bitter and vindictive person and supports bitterness and vindictiveness in his supporters.

The very idea that AP (or any news outlet) should not report *factual* news because it isn't helpful to BS is just laughable. It's not that they want the news to be impartial. They want the news/media to actually overtly support BS and help him win, at the expense of the populace and at the expense of keeping people informed and doing their job.

[GoneFishin]

3. Just because they are guilty of voter suppression and voter manipulation? Geeze, what hot heads. nt

[Raster]

4. Good. Attempting to manipulate the electorate is a shitty thing to do.

Fuck them, their story and the horse they kicked to death.

[hrmjustin]

5. Hillary would have won California without the call.

Hillary did much better than anyone anticipated in the mail in vote.

[One Black Sheep]

6. I think the AP embarrassed themselves

and further showed how widespread this whole corruption thing goes. That said, I do not endorse threatening people, that is unacceptable.

Protesting and angry responses are fine, but not threats, if that is what some are doing.

[Marrah_G]

7. Good- because they tampered with an election

Typical corporate assholes.

[Hortensis]

8. Oh, good grief. Thanks for the laugh, Annavictorious,

from my husband too. Targeting a worldwide news service. And these people think it was evil conspirators who brought him down.

Seriously, when I saw the behaviors of his more ardent followers, I looked back at him more carefully--what is drawing these people so strongly?--and became alarmed at signs of similarities... True, I was already unhappy with "solutions" that could not be implemented and numbers that didn't add up, but his more extreme followers were my first big red flag that he might be bad presidential material.

[wyldwolf]

9. Kermit on Bernie followers

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. meh