Hill reporter Smith says Conservatives ‘have gone to war with the media’ following his tumultuous tweet

Freelance journalist Justin Ling says the Conservatives are using the Dale Smith run-in as a game and an opportunity to disrupt the narrative. 'They are leveraging that far-right fury in order to win the next election.'

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, left, Conservative MP Andrew Scheer, and freelance journalist and member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery Dale Smith. In the House of Commons last week, Genuis said 'the process by which violence is incited against public officials is one in which comments are made that do incite violence that may or may not be serious, but then others pick up on them.'The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

October 3, 2022

Following a controversial tweet that attracted national attention and spawned a flurry of activity between the Conservatives, the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and the House Speaker, freelance Hill journalist Dale Smith says he's "not naïve" that the Conservatives "have gone to war with the media." ...

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