Yes, I've been reading her account. I don't have RealPlayer, don't like it. It sounds a bit more problematic and I find her quite credible but if she was trying to keep filming at the same time as she was trying to get out of the way...

Look, if Amy wanted to get arrested, she did a good job. If journalists want to know how to cover these things and steer clear of the police at the same time, there are ways to do that. I can't make a judgment about Nicole because I can't see it but if she was holding the camera, that's not really the angle I want to see.

video of protester attack on policeman. Brief.

http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/692/

-- pajaro505

Thank you pajaro505, that was certainly provocative. Wonder if they caught that guy?

video of protester attack on policeman. Brief.

http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/692/

Glenn just linked to it in Update IX. I also linked it in an earlier post.

I actually can see the video only on the front page - democracynow.com. (My computer doesn't recognize the formats on the page Glenn linked.) It's the first thing on the page - it's, I believe, the entirety of today's show. The interview with the two producers is also in there.

The video of the arrest is right at the beginning. I actually find the sound more powerful than the video.

Salazar arrest:

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/2/amy_goodman_two_democracy_now_producers

Credibility

It's obvious that the police were seriously heavy handed but it would lend a bit of credibility to the reporting if you at least mentioned some of the protestors (the anarchists?)who were equally out of hand if not more so. I saw video of protestors assaulting police as well. This in no way excuses the behavior of the police. I'm just sayin.

-- Implode

Video? Something, please?

I haven't seen the video of Nicole Salazar's arrest.

Link please?

I want to see it. I have no idea what that was about.

Cargo Cult

Second was the large anti-war march led by Iraq Veterans Against the War. Again, zero coverage of that by Glenn Greenwald & friends.

I already explained this. I'm being paid to suppress news reports of their involvement in the march, as - I suspect is Amy Goodman. Besides that, I have a hidden agenda that is advanced by making sure that that part of the march is blacked out, so of course I'm not going to report it. That's pretty obvious - nothing mysterious about it.

I appreciate your sense of humor and the person below who posted links to Democracy Now's reporting on the Vets at the RNC and hope you will forgive those of us (if not just me?) that are suspicious of everything! Everything. Hasn't always been that way but this administration has spooked me good.

Keep up the good work everyone, appreciate it, no offense.

I saw the videotape (better if they hadn't taped it) and if I were her attorney that's exactly what I'd be telling Amy her story was and to stick to it.

NYTimes with pictures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/politics/02protest.html?em

-- L.W.M

For the record, it was me who said it looked like "she" was following orders, but I wasn't talking about Amy Goodman. I was talking about Nicole Salazar, the producer who was arrested before Amy.

I thought it was Soros paying Goodman, who was paying you but out of her Ford Foundation swiss account. The subcontracting must be a headache for the accountants.

I am citing it as evidence of highly biased coverage, which I think anyone can see if they look at the record leading up to the DNC and the RNC.

I would say that the two most significant and newsworthy protests were the Iraq veterans march and the anti-poverty encampment protest on Harriet Island. The latter was broken up by police, with very little coverage or discussion anywhere - except in the local Star-Tribune:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/conventions/27640039.html

About 20 members of a group planning to march on Tuesday outside the Xcel Energy Center during the Republican National Convention set up an encampment on St. Paul's Harriet Island on Thursday. Hundreds could be staying there next week, according to the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.

No interviews with anyone from that? No interest?

Here's more:

Billy Bragg at Harriet Island Monday.

By CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Star Tribune

Last update: September 1, 2008

Organizers of Monday's Take Back Labor Day festival -- on Harriet Island within earshot of the Xcel Energy Center -- carefully avoided billing the event as a protest concert. None of the 10,000 or so attendees, though, were surprised to find out that's exactly what it was.

Minneapolis indie-rap star Slug, of Atmosphere, wore the same Obama T-shirt he bared on David Letterman's show. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello brought out Iraq Veterans Against the War and called for George Bush to face a war-crimes tribunal. And country-rocker Steve Earle led a sing-along to end the war, which at first wasn't loud enough.

No coverage of that either? That's biased news coverage, and it sure doesn't seem to serve anyone's agenda but the Republicans - or maybe the ideologically driven leftists just hate the Democratic Party so much that they want to see them lose the election, regardless of the consequences - a pyyrhic victory?

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/conventions/27748729.html

I accept, arguendo, that you hate policemen the way that I hate Democarcy Now! That's okay.

I never said any such thing, nor do I hold such a belief (unlike your freely admitted dislike of Democracy Now! which clearly has bearing on your credibility to judge whether its producers are honest). If you have to argue your case in this intellectually dishonest manner, it's clearly not much of a case.

There's video of Nicole Salazar's arrest. Why don't you watch it? It's actual evidence of what happened. Then maybe you can make an argument about real facts, not presumptions that serve your agenda.