Posted on 08/30/2012 8:44:07 AM PDT by kristinn
Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman who was assaulted with peanuts and called an animal by two attendees at the Republican National Convention, told Journal-isms on Thursday that "I hate that it happened, but I'm not surprised at all."
Carroll, who agreed to be named for the first time, said she does not want her situation to be used for political advantage. "This situation could happen to me at the Democratic convention or standing on the street corner. Racism is a global issue," she said by telephone from Tampa.
Carroll said no one took the names of the attendees who threw peanuts at her Tuesday on the convention floor and told her, "This is what we feed animals." She alerted fellow camera operators, producers and CNN security. The head of the delegation — she was not certain of the state — told her the perpetrators must have been alternates, not delegates.
But Carroll, 34, said that as an Alabama native, she was not surprised. "This is Florida, and I'm from the Deep South," she said. "You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don't think I should do."
Carroll noted of the Republican convention, "There are not that many black women there."
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This whole thing stinks . . . no names of the perps . . . no videos of who they were even though she had a camera . . . and, if they got thrown out, who were they? I agree with fellow Freepers . . . this never happened by any of our own people.
Who's being the racist now, Ms. Carroll?
I agree
Totally agree, leftist agit-prop right out of the playbook.
Not certain of the perpetrators' state? How can she be in the news business and not get such basic information, especially when it is so readily available--on the sign next to the delegation or on the delegate's or alternate's credentials?
I gather there are REPUBLICAN witnesses to the vent. So who you questioning boy?
They called her an “animal”. ~
Not only that, but the head of the delegation apparently did not know who these people were...giving more credence to the theory that it was a setup, because I sure did not see anyone throwing peanuts at Mia Love or Condi Rice. In fact, they were only skewered by the foaming-at-the-mouth crazies from the left.
Very good point
If there was any truth to this story, it would be the lead at the top and bottom of the hour on every liberal media outlet. It is not..
It’s a very safe bet that the perps were plants.
“Everyone involved confirms the incident. Curious there is no video or photos, though”
Who is “everyone involved”? So far we only have her. Then there is the supposed RNC statement, but I can’t find it anywhere except in the media reports.
Calling CNN staff animals is an insult to animals!
So she slanders Florida in general and suggests there should be no politics made out if this?
I’m not that familliar with this. What was she saying when people threw peanuts at her?
Were these people who threw stuff actuall from the Republican convention or were they maybe plants.
Wasn’t there video anywhere of what happened?
What do we know for a fact about what happened?
News crew there for the express purpose of broadcasting the event and they didn’t get it on tape? Nothing? No snap shots?
Liars. This is your modern DNC press. Frauds and hoaxsters.
From the website that is reporting this, “about” page:
A Rich History of Training
The institute has a history of training and placing more nonwhite journalists than any other single institution in the country. Through the 1970s and 1980s, more than 200 were trained and placed through the institute’s flagship, Summer Program for Minority Journalists (SPMJ), held at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1980, almost 200 journalists of color trained for advancement to editing desks at the six-week Editing Program, located in 2000 to the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, from its original home at the University of Arizona Journalism Department.
"You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don't think I should do."
Carroll noted of the Republican convention, "There are not that many black women there."
yeah, racism. that’s what it was, doll./s
“It’s a very safe bet that the perps were plants.”
No doubt whatsoever in my mind.
First off, it does not sound like anything Conservatives/Republicans do when they gather. They focus on what it is they’ve gathered for.
Secondly, I have wondered whatever happened to the ‘pink parts protestors’. I can’t believe they just left town.
Strowing trash and hurling insults is what they do wherever they pop up. I can see them trying to blend in with the GOPers with the agenda of stirring the racism pot. Since there was a camera person involved, I’d like to see some pics.
Author of the article:
Richard Prince is a veteran journalist who writes “Richard Prince’s Journal-isms,” the leading news column on diversity issues in the news media, for the Web site of the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education (www.mije.org). It is posted three times a week.
The column also appears on theRoot.com, and he writes about diversity issues and the Internet for the Web site of Poynter Institute, the school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla.
In 2010, Prince received the Robert McGruder Award from Kent State University for his promotion of diversity in the news business, as well as a P.E.N. Oakland award.
Prince chairs the Diversity Committee of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, and for many years, chaired the Media Monitoring Committee of the National Association of Black Journalists. He continues to moderate the NABJ’s listserve, and hosts a monthly dinner roundtable to facilitate networking among Washington, D.C., journalists.
From its 2002 founding until 2007, Prince edited the Black College Wire, a news service for black college students (www.blackcollegewire.org) that aims to improve college newspapers and increase their frequency of publication.
Prince was an editorial writer and columnist at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., where he worked from 1979 to 1994. There, he became a founding member of the William Monroe Trotter Group, an association of African American newspaper columnists for which he helps maintain a presence on the Web. (www.trottergroup.org)
He has also worked in investigative journalism, editing The Public i, an online news report produced by the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that, in another foray into the nonprofit world, he worked at Communities In Schools, a nonprofit that helps keep kids in school.
Prince worked part time as a copy editor at the Washington Post from 1999 to 2008. That service follows time there as a reporter, from 1968 to 1977, when he covered local news. He is a native of New York City, having grown up there and on Long Island, and a graduate of New York University.
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