A little on the local media

[nadinbrzezinski]

Today I got to play cub reporter...

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/7850

So here we are in the middle of the presser and the newsie from Channel Six (Fox) led the thing. He tried to direct the questions to the council narrative. You know the usual but... them are hippies, druggies and really they have no right to be here. No I am not shitting. He actually said, "but you think do they have a right to be here?" Well I do carry a copy of the Constitution. I brought it out... and asked him if he thought he was covered but peaceful assembly was not? He quickly changed the subject. What is a thing of beauty is that the women called the local press precisely on those tactics in both their main read statements and in the question and answer period. It was a good thing I did not have a press badge... I mean I was not part of the club, even if I was doing the same thing.

But if you wonder how our modern media does it. well it was disconcerting to see that. What was funny is how eyes bugged once he SAW THAT FRACKING DOCUMENT... I offered to read the amendment as well.

Go ahead, finger waggle me. There was a time when reporters did that regularly to the papers, and in this case the newscasts, of record.

[JohnnyRingo]

1. In particular, I shake my head when bona fide reporters ask...

"Is it time for them to go?"

I could lie and say I looked at the constitution to see if the first amendment had an expiration date for assembly, but I didn't. I didn't think I had to.

It seems when a reporter ends the sentence in a question mark, they know everything that follows is unfounded bias.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yup, I could have just stood there

and done nothing... but evil and all that. Why I pulled it out.

I know he IS doing his job, and the BIAS comes from corporate, but the bias needs to be called on... and I don't pretend to be unbiased.