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Hatuey said:
He's not good at this. The guy is completely confused by a correspondent being close to where an event is happening.



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Obviously he is not to be taken seriously. I mean WTF?
 
ReubenSherr said:
Reporting this close to an event
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Before you decide to dig a deeper hole:

Reporter in Vietnam (warzone)

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Reporter in Iraq (warzone)

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Lmao, what made you so arrogant as to pretend 'this' specific instance of reporting is closer than any other and presented a great threat to the officers but not the soldiers in battlefields? Was it a humanities degree?

This would go a lot better for you if you stopped bull****ting about a world you don't understand. First it was ratings, now that you've understood ratings are irrelevant when you can't see them, you've moved on to this being some sort of unique case, except of course there are literally hundreds of other reporters in the area doing the same thing he was.

It's just so embarrassing.



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ReubenSherr said:
Reporting this close to an event where violence is occurring, and distracting law enforcement from protecting people around you, is not safe, and it is not responsible reporting. Period.
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ReubenSherr said:
There's a difference between asking once, and purposely repeating it over and over in a disruptive manner, while law enforcement is trying to keep the people around you safe - it almost seems like he's trying to stage reality TV
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You do understand that he asked over and over is because the cop didn't answer him? He has a right to know why he is being arrested. Honestly you're sitting here telling us that you would behave differently?

WTF is wrong with you?
 
Top Cat said:
You do understand that he asked over and over is because the cop didn't answer him? He has a right to know why he is being arrested. Honestly you're sitting here telling us that you would behave differently?

WTF is wrong with you?
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Tiki torch ideology.

I got 5 on it.

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ReubenSherr said:
Reporting this close to an event where violence is occurring, and distracting law enforcement from protecting people around you, is not safe, and it is not responsible reporting. Period.
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Dude,

Just stop.....there is no justification in this, if there was....slightly, anything, that could make it justified, HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN RELEASED AN MERE 90 MINUTES LATER......

The cops screwed up, the more important question is WHY. Not who, not what happened, but why it happened.

Could there be more to the story, absolutely, maybe they were told prior, that they couldn't film there, and they did, I have a feeling we would have heard that by now and he wouldn't have been released that quickly.

You are just not helping by trying to advocate that the cops were right in this....they weren't. We do need to know who gave this order, and WHY it was given, if you are to truly understand what happened.
 
Diesel said:
Why? YouTube is a video hosting platform. The OP links are from CNN, which is a mainstream media source.
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Then post the CNN link where the story and associated video can be viewed. The YouTube link misses the story, and much of the time comes up as a black rectangle.
 
ReubenSherr said:
I was completely sympathizing with the reporter, until the police cuffed him, and his response was to egg the cop on "Why am I under arrest, sir, can you tell me why am I under arrest...?" - Just like the incident with Kaitlyn Collins at the press briefing, CNN thinks their ratings are more important than the public welfare

The CNN team was interfering with the officer's ability to keep the area safe - it's extremely self-centered of CNN to imply that their reporting is more important than the police's responsibility to keep the area safe - And egging the officer on on national television is way over the line

There's a completely separate issue, though, of whether the police would've done the same thing to a white reporter - don't have enough info to address that - if it's true that there's racism involved here, it's a topic that needs to be discussed, but it doesn't justify CNN interfering with the ability of law enforcement to protect the citizens in that area
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If I get pulled over in my car, the first thing I ask the officer is, why are you pulling me over? You call that egging the cop on, I call it knowing my rights and applying them.

The cops walked over to the reporter, he was doing nothing wrong, he was doing his job but we all know how some folks can't stand free speech.
 
sjmay said:
Dude,

Just stop.....there is no justification in this, if there was....slightly, anything, that could make it justified, HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN RELEASED AN MERE 90 MINUTES LATER......
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???

The police held him so that he and his reporters would clear the area, which they had been told several times to do, so that law enforcement could keep everybody else around them safe

CNN should have had the judgment to make sure the reporter was far enough from the violence so that their reporting team wouldn't be a distraction to law enforcement officers around them - I notice every other news outlet seemed to have that kind of judgment
 
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ReubenSherr said:
???

The police held him so that he and his reporters would clear the area, which they had been told several times to do, so that law enforcement could keep everybody else around them safe

CNN should have had the judgment to make sure the reporter was far enough from the violence so that their reporting team wouldn't be a distraction to law enforcement officers around them - I notice every other news outlet seemed to have that kind of judgment
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what every one else around them?
 
ReubenSherr said:
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The police held him so that he and his reporters would clear the area, which they had been told several times to do, so that law enforcement could keep everybody else around them safe

CNN should have had the judgment to make sure the reporter was far enough from the violence so that their reporting team wouldn't be a distraction to law enforcement officers around them - I notice every other news outlet seemed to have that kind of judgment
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What violence did you see on that video? There was none, at all, in fact in that video you know who was there, the reporter, and the police, that's it.
 
ReubenSherr said:
Something just seems off here to me, though - The CNN team is purposely standing as close to the violence as possible, it does nothing but interfere with law enforcement's ability to keep the area safe

And even repeating to the officer "Why am I being arrested...why am I being arrested" weakens the ability of the cops to respond to the danger going on around them - he's a CNN correspondent, I feel like he should know better
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Is this purposeful stupidity or are you talking about some other alternative reality?
 
prometeus said:
Is this purposeful stupidity or are you talking about some other alternative reality?
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You're going to have to do better than that, bud;) Try to respond to the content of what's being discussed, if you can handle it
 
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sjmay said:
What violence did you see on that video? There was none, at all, in fact in that video you know who was there, the reporter, and the police, that's it.
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Did you miss the police rushing after a person to arrest them in the background?

Watch the tape again.
 
dcsports said:
Then post the CNN link where the story and associated video can be viewed. The YouTube link misses the story, and much of the time comes up as a black rectangle.
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Sounds like a personal problem.
 
Schism said:
The CNN team should have moved when told instead of standing there acting like they don't know what to do.
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What were they told and when exactly is that in the video?

This seems more like a passive aggressive "I dare you to arrest me on live TV" drama.

I'm sure he'll be a liberal hero darling for two weeks until his book is released; like Jim Agotcha.
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This is, does not seem, but is some retarded ignorant partisan crap.
 
dcsports said:
It is a rule that you link to the original source. Linking to youtube doesn't do that.
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CNN doesn't post all of its video content. An anti-YouTube rampage seems like a weird way to spend your day. You could always report the post to see if linking to YouTube is indeed a rules violation.
 
ReubenSherr said:
That doesn't justify CNN anchors from getting so close to the violence that they're distracting law enforcement, and making the situation even more unsafe - They should handle the situation like adults
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Where the **** is that happening? Why are you lying repeatedly? You think that repeating the same crap will make it reality?
 
ecofarm said:
Why is it "team arrested"?

They arrested the black guy, handed the mic to the white camera guy, and off they went.
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They arrest the black news member and politely hand the microphone to the white news team member. Are you kidding me?
 
Diesel said:
Sounds like a personal problem.
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I'm not going there. I'm just assuming the OP didn't know that youtube links are so fragile. Just trying to make this forum better.
 
ReubenSherr said:
Did you miss the police rushing after a person to arrest them in the background?

Watch the tape again.
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No,I saw it.....I guess your definition of violence belongs only to you......because nobody in the ****ing world, would describe that as violent.
 
Crosscheck said:
They arrest the black news member and politely hand the microphone to the white news team member. Are you kidding me?
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Another Cnn reporter at the scene. See post with details above.
 
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