So what did they do to be arrested? Do you even know? The producers of this “Democracy Now” participated in riots and where arrested with 280 other people. This Goodman chick was arrested for obstructing justice. You can’t go to one of these kinds of events and expect to push around policemen and secret service that are already on high alert. What a scam… She got exactly what she wanted, a big seen and some video to boot. Please!

 

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From: Munnch Date: Sep 3, 2008 10:14 AM

Is this what we can expect out of a McCain-Palin presidency? China-type abuses of police power being used to control media coverage? A professional journalist with CLEAR credentials was arrested while doing her job peacefully.


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This is America. We don't jail journalists here.


Jailing journalists is unacceptable in a democracy. But that's exactly what is happening at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.


Award winning journalist and host of "Democracy Now" Amy Goodman was arrested by St. Paul police while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Though clearly identified as press, Goodman was charged with "obstruction of a legal process and interference with a 'peace officer.'" Two of her producers were arrested for "suspicion of felony riot.
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This video is upsetting, but you deserve to know what's really going on.


Goodman and her producers were released Monday night. (An AP photographer was also arrested and released). But the charges are still pending.


This story has been virtually ignored by the mainstream press. The cable channels are providing extensive coverage of events related to the Republican National Convention, but there has been a virtual news blackout on the arrest of Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now team.


Americans deserve to know that journalists are being jailed for trying to do their jobs. E-mail CNN President Jonathan Klein and NBC News President Steve Capus today (NBC News controls MSNBC) to demand coverage of this brutally important story.


Source: Credo Action
http://act. credoaction. com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists/?r=1376&id=796-1722275-vqi. YVx

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