This is video from DN producer Nicole Salazar's camera. You can listen to Nicole scream as the police beat her, and her cries of "Press!", "Press!". She is a fully credentialed journalist, and was wearing her press badge.
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unreal. journalists are supposed to cover news, which is what she was doing--she was not rioting!
when police say get down, you get down
when police in riot gear order you to get down, you stfu and get down
given what the police there are dealing with - people throwing bleach in the faces of conventioners, slinging human waste, damaging property - it's easy to understand they ain't puttin up with any lip
sorry amy and other DNers, but they said go away and you didn't go away
you want to hang with the protesters, you'll get treated like the protesters
The DN crew was filming and interviewing. Amy Goodman approached the officer (wearing a full press access pass) to ask about the arrests (of Salazar, etc.)which had ALREADY taken place. This would be standard journalistic practice. The DN crew was not hanging out with the protesters...they were covering the news. The clash between the police and the protesters was news. Since when does our media turn a blind eye toward violence, even when it involves protesters? Is that not news? If not, why not?
amy should have gone to the police station or found a police pr person, not some random cop in riot gear charged with attempting to maintain some order
that she thought screaming press at a worker bee would get her somewhere shows how naive her reporting tends to be
Right. Amy is naive:
In 1990 and 1991, Amy traveled to East Timor to report on the US-backed Indonesian occupation of East Timor. There, she and colleague Allan Nairn witnessed Indonesian soldiers gun down 270 East Timorese. Indonesian soldiers beat Amy and Allan, fracturing Allan’s skull. Their documentary, "Massacre: The Story of East Timor" won numerous awards. In May of 2002, Democracy Now! returned to East Timor to cover the founding of the new nation. The 5-day series, "From Annihilation to a New Nation," was the most comprehensive coverage of East Timor’s transition to independence broadcast in the United States.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/01/int04006.html
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