'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland
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#2Interview with the same journalist: DarkHorse Podcast with Nancy Rommelmann and Bret Weinstein [1].
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#3This is vital to understand for anyone who thinks they know what's going on at Portland, and - on a broader scale - most current events. There is a massive polarization of who consumes which facts, and this is simply an encoding of that: a drip-feed of exactly what one group of people wish to see.
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#4Interview with the same journalist: DarkHorse Podcast with Nancy Rommelmann and Bret Weinstein [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfT_APUnp30
Bret, notably, lives in Portland, and has been making direct observations about these events for a while.
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#5Having done a fair share of media work on and in German protests myself: the biggest problem is that video evidence can and will be used by cops to go after activists - and that includes material from way outside a riot scene, given that police also look for such tiny details as shoes to (attempt to) identify people. The people at such events have something to lose: careers, families, friendships, years behind bars.
In contrast, in countries like Turkey, Belarus or other dictatorships, where the fear is getting killed regardless of protests, the situation is different - people on these protests want their faces to become public so that they cannot be "disappeared".
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#6If you spend any time on the Portland subreddit, you'll see plenty of stories and comments about how the city is just fine, and only Trump fans with an agenda push a "rioting and burning narrative". It's amazing watching hypocritical narrative control in action. These are the same people pushing for police body cameras.
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#7Having done a fair share of media work on and in German protests myself: the biggest problem is that video evidence can and will be used by cops to go after activists - and that includes material from way outside a riot scene, given that police also look for such tiny details as shoes to (attempt to) identify people. The people at such events have something to lose: careers, families, friendships, years behind bars.…
Go after them for what? Are they doing something illegal?
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#8This isn't just limited to Portland but is becoming a general aspect of these protests now, e.g. here[1] was DC last night where a Washington Post reporter was hounded out of the protest and then followed by "minders" to prevent his return.
Protesters are now blocking media from filming their demonstration, shining lights into a reporter’s face, blocking shots with fans umbrellas and following like “minders” ... “We have our press we know and trust,” this young woman says
[1] https://twitter.com/KunkleFredrick/status/130241105817530777...
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#9Having done a fair share of media work on and in German protests myself: the biggest problem is that video evidence can and will be used by cops to go after activists - and that includes material from way outside a riot scene, given that police also look for such tiny details as shoes to (attempt to) identify people. The people at such events have something to lose: careers, families, friendships, years behind bars.…
I think this is a really important perspective. Reporting of protests is not neutral, and neither is the police's response.
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#10Having done a fair share of media work on and in German protests myself: the biggest problem is that video evidence can and will be used by cops to go after activists - and that includes material from way outside a riot scene, given that police also look for such tiny details as shoes to (attempt to) identify people. The people at such events have something to lose: careers, families, friendships, years behind bars.…
Go after them for what? Are they doing something illegal?
Cops have plenty of ways of going after people who haven’t committed crimes.
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...