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Agreed. Given the nature of the story, it's much stronger with footage. -
If they aren't allowed to film, would there be any film?Originally posted by Now who’s the dean? View PostAin't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
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From a local Portland paper. Interviews of several videographer's experience in the streets. Pretty extended and balanced look into the competing narratives.
Amid this atmosphere, two different storylines compete for Portlanders' acceptance.
The first is that police officers are battering the citizens they're charged to protect, and elected officials have an obligation to yield to protesters' demands and cut the bureau's funding.
The other is that the protests have lost sight of the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement and devolved into anarchy, and city leaders must either persuade rioters to go home, or arrest and jail them until their will is broken.
These dueling narratives are irreconcilable. They cannot co-exist peacefully, any more than the protesters and police can.
And both are driven by video footage.
Decades before most of the people in Portland's streets were born, academic Marshall McLuhan coined a phrase: "The medium is the message." That is, the way in which people receive information is just as important as its content.
The way Americans learn about clashes at Portland protests is from videos—delivered to their phones within minutes of each conflict. And no medium is so well suited to heightening outrage.
A single video can unleash a tsunami of indignation and reshape a city's politics. That can be a force for reform: The national uprising against police brutality began with footage of an officer killing George Floyd. But it can also work in the other direction.
Anyone with a Wi-Fi signal can scroll through the most shocking incidents in Portland's streets the way basketball fans watch game highlights. And like fans, people on both ends of the political spectrum can pick the feeds that favor their team.Azar rarely films protesters' faces, except when they're being arrested. She doesn't film people engaged in "direct actions"—that is, spraying graffiti or setting dumpster fires. She says such footage would eventually wind up in the possession of police or right-wing demonstrators who would use it to harass people online.That decision doesn't square easily with the journalistic ideal of presenting all the actions of people you cover, however unflattering. To further complicate matters, some of the more radical protesters have threatened to smash the equipment of those who do film faces.
Some of the videographers contend that filming everything protesters do would make them little more than unpaid police informants on their own sources, and that their primary responsibility is to hold public agencies accountable. But it's hardly a universal position: Other videographers say their duty is to broadcast all newsworthy events, even if that sends somebody to jail. And lately, conservative activists have appeared in the press ranks, making Portland part of a circuit they travel to expose the excesses of leftist demonstrators.Comment
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Portland is such a mess.Originally posted by swampfrog View Post
Blocking people from filming infuriates me."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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this story about the 13 year old autistic kid (white kid, ftr) police shot while running away could get interesting as more details come out.
https://www.ksl.com/article/50015045...oy-with-autismI'm like LeBron James.
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I saw that last night. It was a rough read.Originally posted by smokymountainrain View Post"The first thing I learned upon becoming a head coach after fifteen years as an assistant was the enormous difference between making a suggestion and making a decision."
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That is an infuriating case. How does stuff like this continue to happen?Originally posted by smokymountainrain View Post
Put the guns down. Deescalate, please."...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
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That's a primary area where change is needed. Mental health calls where the caller can provide details of the exact situation that some authority figure is walking into. Minimal necessary force, including the visual of a uniformed cop coming in to assess. They can wait outside, around the block. Needs to start completely non-threatening.Originally posted by smokymountainrain View PostComment
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Please tell me that's not THE Rex Chapman.Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post"The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuaneComment
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it is THE rex chapman. posting funny videos (the block or charge videos) is kinda his thing these days.Originally posted by Non Sequitur View PostI'm like LeBron James.
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He is a great follow.Originally posted by smokymountainrain View Post"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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He is funny and has become woke. I think the latter turn threw some of his followers for a loop.Originally posted by smokymountainrain View PostNothing lasts, but nothing is lost.
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