A couple of those anecdotes might explain some of.the violence against the press, but of you go on YT and watch a few videos, you'll see several instances of cops shooting clearly marked press with camera crew with pepper balls from less than 10m away, police in full gear spraying a camera through a fence when the majority of the crowd is dispersed and on the other side, a proned out reporter holding up his press ID getting Maced in the middle of a gas station parking lot, the CNN crew getting busted on live TV, etc.
I don't even like Vice and CNN et. al , but I like tyranical behavior way less.