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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 01:31 PM Jan 2012

Actual voters are mere speed bumps to the press


https://twitter.com/#%21/BuzzFeedBen/status/154256462439383041

Actual voters are mere speed bumps.

During the last multi-candidate event at the West Des Moines Valley High School on the day of the caucus, the students participated in the Rock the Vote event as audience members, organizers, and coordinators of the activities of visiting reporters.

Apparently the reporters were “pushy",” “rude,” and "pushed through a line of students who were trying to show reporters where they could and could not go.” How do we here at RH know this? Several students themselves told me as the event ended that they were “disappointed” by the “shameful behavior” of the reporters, photographers, and camera crews. Some students were walking out talking about how they had been badly treated.

One student even showed me, the beginning of a bruise on her arm that she said came from a reporter who “slammed into me” to “push past the line of students and did not care who he hurt.” “He was so rude,” she said.

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2012/01/reporter-asshatery.html

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Actual voters are mere speed bumps to the press (Original Post) kpete Jan 2012 OP
Often the press today thinks IMO they are the news, not passive reporters of news, much as RKP5637 Jan 2012 #1
They all want the scoop Angry Dragon Jan 2012 #2

RKP5637

(67,107 posts)
1. Often the press today thinks IMO they are the news, not passive reporters of news, much as
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 01:39 PM
Jan 2012

when talking airheads report and discuss events on MSM.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. They all want the scoop
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 01:59 PM
Jan 2012

following the republicans around what they do need is a BIG
scoop shovel to get through all the shit................

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