<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bredren</author><text>Another way to look at it is their reporters on US press have been caught flat-footed on daily news gathering. They don&amp;#x27;t have the same skills as their non-US counterparts and are rattled.&lt;p&gt;This is a call to arms.  We are facing darkness now, and I believe this will have a lasting impact in what reporters are capable of and willing to do to offer free press.</text><parent_chain><item><author>a_humean</author><text>So Reuter&amp;#x27;s position is that the media environment in the US is rapidly becoming like illiberal democracies in Egypt, Russia and Iran, and so its time to use skills applicable when operating within typically third world authoritarian regimes. What heart warming times we live in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reuters&apos; position on covering Trump</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-adlertrump-idUSKBN15F276</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ErikVandeWater</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a very sensationalist way of putting it, especially when they say &amp;quot;Don’t take too dark a view of the reporting environment...&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>a_humean</author><text>So Reuter&amp;#x27;s position is that the media environment in the US is rapidly becoming like illiberal democracies in Egypt, Russia and Iran, and so its time to use skills applicable when operating within typically third world authoritarian regimes. What heart warming times we live in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reuters&apos; position on covering Trump</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-adlertrump-idUSKBN15F276</url></story>