Journalists prepare for protests where they could be targets
(World News USA)

NEW YORK (AP) — While monitoring online chatter about protests at state capitols in advance of next week`s presidential inauguration, the Seattle Times came across a chilling description for journalists: soft targets. The phrase drove home the importance of safety precautions being put in place by news organizations across the country this weekend, including those planned by Times managing editor Ray Rivera and his colleagues. “This is scary territory,” Rivera said. “I don`t want to overstate this, but there is always the concern. It`s hard to know how much of this is rhetoric or bombast, but it`s easy for me to think that some person is going to take those messages seriously and do...