More on this morning's posts, and police actions against reporters

[solarbird]

In addition to this police action breaking up peaceful protest, and this coverage of journalists being forced away from covering an AT&T party for the Democratic Senators most involved in the passage of retractive immunity for clear and direct violations of domestic spying law, we now have ABC reporters being arrested for taking pictures of Senators and their donors, and being threatened with violence by police. The story has a link to video, which features an officer repeatedly shoving the ABC reporter into the street, then accusing him with blocking traffic for being in the street; later, you can see him being throttled by another officer as he's arrested and hauled off to jail. Thanks to cow for the pointer.

Comments

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, last I heard Chris Vlasto was an executive producer at shows like Good Morning America and Primetime Live? So sure, he's have some control of what stories get covered on the particular shows he works on, but that constitutes "running the network" in your boat? I think that's laying the conspiracy talk a little thick.

[wrog]

the parenthetical wasn't intended to claim that Vlasto is one of the ones running ABC but rather to cite him as evidence of the leanings of his employers who saw fit to keep him in his job despite all of his right wing antics over the years.

Compare with CBS's treatment of Dan Rather over TANG story.