Posted on 08/25/2010 8:34:05 PM PDT by Nachum
On Sunday I was honored to be a speaker at the rally against building the mosque at ground zero put on by the Coalition to Honor Ground Zero. As the rally concluded, thousands of the participants marched the one block from the rally site to the actual site of Ground Zero.
I noticed a man in black shirt with a phone camera aggressively questioning and haranguing a gentleman with the sign, No Sharia Here. He was very aggressive, disrespectful and condescending; apparently, he did not like the mans answers about Shariah and pushed the point: Why do you feel threatened? What are you afraid of? Why cant you answer my questions?
My instincts told me to document the scene, and I took out my camera. I originally thought he was a supporter of the mosque (theyd gathered in much smaller numbers a few blocks away), or some kind of fringe reporter for a small, even fringier leftist paper. When I challenged the man in the black shirt, asking him to tell me what media outlet he worked for, he refused to answer. He walked away.
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Haw!
MSM employees in the 1960s/70s used to take signs and blue, red, and yellow "protest banners" (Viet Cong flags) to "anti-war" rallies just in case the protesters forgot.
I do not how common this was but I certainly heard reports of it happening.
If a tip is phoned in, it has to be assigned to a desk (local, national, sports, etc.), a reporter has to be found and available, a technical crew assembled, a vehicle assigned, gear loaded, travel time, setup, locating persons or action to shoot or interview, writing/scripting, etc., and then you're ready to shoot and interview.....it could take hours, and more likely...days. Nope. It's all organized. Believe me. I was in the industry for many years and news is mostly smoke and mirrors.
A building is not what I was referring to. The US already has a legal system.
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