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Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com)
Investigative reporter and co-founder of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman, is now facing riot charges in the state of North Dakota after her report on a Native American-led pipeline protest there went viral on Facebook. From a TechCrunch report:Democracy Now! issued a statement about the new charges against Goodman late Saturday. Goodman's story, posted to Facebook on September 4th, has been viewed more than 14 million times on the social media platform, Democracy Now! said, and was picked up by mainstream media outlets and networks including CBS, NBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC and The Huffington Post. Additionally, documentary filmmaker Deia Schlosberg, is facing felony and conspiracy charges that could carry a 45-year sentence for filming at the protest, IndieWire reports.
No. Dissent. Allowed.
I feel like I'm not getting the full picture here
Other than piss of people with a shit ton of money and expose their illegal activities.
You know - I'm not even really against the pipeline. IMHO the protesters are over blowing the concerns and construction should have been going ahead.
THAT SAID - the way the authorities have been treating the protesters is absolutely mind boggling. They have a right to protest - and people have a right to film it. Trumping up "riot" charges because you don't like what they're saying is not just sour grapes - it's unconstitutional.
I'm not even sure about my position on the pipeline itself anymore, but everyone involved in the handling of the protests should be either voted out/recalled if elected, or fired if not elected.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
She's charged for taking part in the riot - the evidence? She filmed herself trespassing on private property along with the rioters, filmed it, then turned around and claimed she's immune because she's a journalist.
This time it was a hit piece on big oil.
Next time it could be you.
Save North Dakota from becoming another liberal hellhole and instead let it become a paradise like our good friends in Saudi Arabia.
No where does it state she actively participated in the protest. I highly doubt they will be charged and I feel sorry for the judge that has to see this case. Though I do think Snowden's tweet is ironic, he got 30 for hundreds of govt secrets to protect the common man and she might get 45 for doing her job.
The large-media coverage on this has been near nonexistent. NYTimes is carrying one AP wire story about it, but no editorial comment. CNN has literally *nothing*. This has been news for weeks (thought the charges were changed from trespassing (after it seemed hard to make that stick) to rioting). Rolling Stone had been reporting on it, but really? Why do I have to get important political news from a music mag (or from, say, a tech website)? Why do I hear so much more about Trumps hand size and sexual escapades than I do about obstruction of freedom of the press? I mean, yeah, I know why, really (a generation fed on intellectual pap); just whining, I guess. Now GTF off my lawn, 'k?
Why she filed and released the evidence there is little question she was a participant in illegal activity. She crossed the line you do not get to be a participant in a crime just because your a journalist.
No sir I dont like it.
Against the pipeline?
I hope a flaming oil train derails in your backyard Karl Cocknozzle.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
There are activists and there are paid democrat shills but there are no reporters.
hope and change?
That's a legitimate question.
Why is the law and the force of law enforcement always on the side of the entrenched, obsolete and now destructive interests?
When will law and law enforcement actually be supporting the implementation of the absolutely clearly necessary changes to our energy system?
When will the law actually be clearing away obstruction to change, instead of advocates of necessary change?
Imagine all the people...
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
oh come on, someone with the handle bickerdyke obviously knows what "flaming oil train" and "derail in your backyard" are euphemisms for.
I was merely wishing Karl Cocknozzle a enjoyable Monday evening.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
She's gonna need it. As'friendly' as north Dakota portrays itself, that state has been corrupt for decades. I would not be surprised if she was another mystery suicide in jail where the cameras malfunctioned again and the people paid to sit and watch all went on break.
The same state where you can't find a lawyer at all to prosecute cops.
And God help you if you treat natives as humans.
I wish I was exaggerating. But I left and never looked back.
If the Dakotas got swallowed up by the gates of hell tomorrow it'd be an improvement.
There were people there DESTROYING PRIVATE PROPERTY. Most likely these "reporters" were caught in "a net". Once it goes to court, they will weed out the troublemakers. Another NON story trying to get everyone worked up, BEFORE all of the facts are know.
That liberal North Dakota government is trying to take away our First Amendment rights. Thanks a lot, Obama.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yeah I don't know what exactly happened, but I do see that two of the three links in the summary point to "Democracy Now!", an activist group founded by the defendant. That's about as objective as reporting about Trump's past based on what's donaldjtrump.com says about it.
Not only is is linking to one side of the story, but Amy Goodman and her Democracy Now! organization routinely describe their activities as "war". "All's fair in love and war", they say, and since she describes what she does as "war" that suggests to me she probably feel lying about this is perfectly justified in her war against The Man.
"you do not get to be a participant in a crime just because your a journalist."
Unless you are an embedded journalist with the troops in the second Iraq war.
This will be down-modded as a troll, but that war was based on lies and the schedule on the "microsoft-project" plan for the war, overriding the requests of the international weapons inspectors to wait to let them finish their investigation with which Iraq was cooperating. That war was inflicted on people of the same general skin tone as 9/11 terrorists and no closer relationship to that attack than that, as an object lesson to whomever, worldwide, not to mess with the US. If that isn't illegal under the laws and conventions of international aggression I don't know what is.
Illegality is a matter of power and perspective, it seems.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
He's actually doing something about it as opposed to Hillary....
It's just a typo. They meant North KOREA, not North Dakota.
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I don't think being a journalist allows you to trespass. However, if there were to be such an exemption, I would expect that it would only be given if the journalist were truly just a neutral observe.
She was filming what was happening. That's not illegal.
I have no trouble believing that police got hostile to people with cameras. At the same time, it's also possible that the Democracy Now reporters were arrested for actually becoming violent.
The fact that the headline is so vague and weaselly makes me think that someone is trying to put a spin on it. You might as well say that they "face jail time after brushing their teeth" and they "face jail time after getting out of bed in the morning" and it would literally be true.
With the best legal system money can buy.
Inside abortion clinics?
You apparently didn't watch the same video I did. It's one thing to bear witness it's another to actively encourage them like a docudrama producer. The line is well established and she crossed it.
No sir I dont like it.
N. Dakota charges reporter with 'riot' for covering protest--but gets slapped down by judge
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done shall not interrupt the one who is doing it.
The story hasn't been picked up by Canadian media at all, and by hardly anybody in the US. However, in England, the BBC and the Guardian are running this story.
The situation might be different if this was taking place in China; then it would be reported by N.A. media as a human rights story.
I have written a truly remarkable program which this sig is too small to contain.
Journalists should not only be permitted but deeply encouraged to record events and make them public according to their own viewpoint.
Yes, as long as they don't break the law themselves.
That includes inside businesses such as food processing plants and any other place likely to commit certain horrors. That is what America is all about.
Who decides what is considered a "place of horror"? What if one journalist deceided your office was a place of horror- demanded to be let past security and stand behind your back and film you all day? Should that be legal?
What if the journalist got a hunch that you are a paedophile and hid cameras all around your bedroom? Is that legal? You think they should be allowed anywhere horrors might occur?
I think I'm going to become a journalist- I think acts of paedophilia might be happening in Angelina Jolie's shower.
Here is one huge issue. If nothing else a pipeline is a declaration that we will continue to use oil.
Ahh... so here's the crux of the issue- a journalist should have the right to break laws and trespass on private property when YOU PERSONALLY agree with the political stand they make.
Guess what, I'm against the increased use of fossil fuel. I think we should be weening off it as soon as we can. I don't however believe that journalists have the rights to trespass or break the law to further that agenda.
How can people trust a government that promotes secrecy and business over the life and health of its people?
How can people trust a government that allows journalists to break the law, but only when they agree with the journalist's political proclivity. The law has to be equal for everyone or it's tyranny.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
She never committed a crime.
She committed at least one, she was trespassing.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
to the status quo and the cheap conveniences it grants you, and it is on this basis that you oppose change, and create tortured arguments appearing to be rational but grounded in wishful thinking.
On the "more CO2, methane in atmosphere leads to solar-heat-trapping and global warming" scientific issue, the scientific verdict is crystal clear, even if the nth degree accuracy of models of complex local effects is not assured. That level of accuracy of sub-effect predictions and exact timing is irrelevant, so long as the key drivers of the energy retention on the planet are understood, and they are.
On the "humans are responsible for greatly increased CO2 and methane release than over the last million years or so", that scientific case is also decided with a yes.
Scientific evidence is on the side of a clear significant rapid warming effect. Emotional opposition to change is driving the opposition to action. Where those supporting change in an attempt to moderate this physical planetary problem become emotional is only because they are frustrated by the irrational and seemly self-centred opposition to the changes needed.Mostly, those wanting change here are scared shitless by their intelligent, accurate read of the scientific consensus.
Those opposed are childishly saying "I found one industry-paid phd in a different field schill over here who says it's a crock."
"Warming and need for swift action" is supported by science and rationality.
"There is no warming caused by us, and no action is needed' is supported by emotion and irrationality.
So get it straight who are the know-nothing emotional ones on this issue.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Well it appears she did not assist,act,take part in any of the protests and fighting that went on. So she should sue and sue them so it hurts. Arresting people in this case looks like intimidation tactic the government should pay dearly for.. that's my opinion anyways.
Jack of all trades,master of none
I just think it's hard to believe most of the protesters' claims about 'violation' when from what I've read, there's ALREADY a gas pipeline running along the route the oil pipeline is proposed to follow?
-Styopa
Strange that they would drop that charge then - since that would usually mean they don't think they can prove she committed said crime.
Given she must have already been found guilty by a court of law right? Or does a presumption of innocence only apply to people who agree with you?
According to the local paper.
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My understand was that they were not arrested for reporting the story, but rather for the trespassing they had to do in order to observe the other trespassers in order to cover the story. Should news reporters be allowed to violate the law to get a story or not? (If the stories that the pipeline company continued working despite a court order requiring them to cease work are true, then I tend to side with the protesters.)
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
But... I thought a good man was hard to find? (Or is it a hard man is good to find? I forget...)
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Damn straight! If I want to report on the exploitation of women that goes on in strip clubs, then I need to be inside, filming, for weeks, months, years... as long as it takes to get the story!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
This just in: http://www.democracynow.org/20...
Why is slashdot covering a story on how a reporter is being treated by the state? There is nothing high technology in that. There is nothing high technology about protesting construction of an oil pipeline, unless some robots were protesting. This story shouldn't be here.
It's Network Decay in action. The same reason why the Sci-Fi Channel started airing professional wrestling. 18-24 year old males like Star Trek, and 18-24 year old males also like professional wrestling. Therefore, in an effort to make the channel appeal to MORE 18-24 year old males, start showing wrestling on your Sci-Fi Channel, even rebrand it to Syfy to show how much you're branching out.
Slashdot is the same way. Newer viewers (and I really noticed this happening when Jon Katz started writing his tangentially-related Columbine Massacre articles here) like to pretend that Slashdot was "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters" as if that comma was big OR. But it wasn't. It was a tech-related website. Then the occasional politics-related story crept in and editors noticed it would get a lot of views and a ton of comments! And the slide began, and it still continues.