Body-slammed reporter donates his broken glasses to the Newseum
A lot of things have happened in that last year that would be deemed too unrealistic or on-the-nose if they had been written into some bleak and depressing movie, but very few of them come close to the story of Ben Jacobs, the Guardian reporter who was body-slammed by Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte in Montana on the day before a special election last week. In any other universe, that politician’s career would’ve disintegrated in a heartbeat, but in our terrible universe, he actually won the election and left Jacobs with nothing but a broken pair of glasses and a new understanding of just how much this country’s scummier politicians hate reporters these days.