There’s a hot story today about some new research by the American Automobile Association on marijuana in fatal accidents.
As usual, media coverage is misleading.
The best example of this media abuse comes from Tom Costello and The Today Show with a headline asserting marijuana is causing a spike in fatal accidents.
I was taking photos of a sign outside the Homestead city council meeting in South Florida this month when a police officer named John Edward Frank informed me that I was forbidden from taking his photo – even though I had no interest in photographing him in the first place.
So I started video recording him instead.
What else did he expect considering I was wearing my Photography is Not a Crime t-shirt?
A woman believed to have been part of the media relations team for American University in Washington D.C. told a journalist that she did not have the right to record a protest on campus Thursday because it would interfere with their attempt to provide a “safe space” for people on campus.
Four Australian 60 Minutes reporters attempted a violent street kidnapping which was caught on camera, and have landed in a Lebanese jail facing serious charges.
It’s an epic journalism ethics failure that might leave an Aussie news crew in Lebanese prison for years to come.
Hubris is the culprit.
The Aussie 60 Minutes TV crew wanted to help 29-year old flight attendant Sally Faulkner to bring her two children Lahala, six, and Noah four, back to Australia from Lebanon
American Airlines kicked a well-known reporter off a flight after he complained about it being delayed while live streaming inside a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday.
Cenk Uygur, who hosts the liberal-leaning Young Turks online news show, was told the “captain didn’t feel comfortable” with him getting on the flight.
He was escorted away by a police officer, whom he said apologized to him for having to remove him.
“You’re about to go to jail for being a dumb-ass,” said a Houston Federal Agent Calderon to PINAC citizen journalist David Warden.
Boy, was he wrong.
The Houston Federal Court Security Agent assaulted PINAC correspondent David Warden when he lawfully recorded outside of a Federal Courthouse on its sidewalk.
Just three minutes after Warden began recording in the video below which is going viral, a Federal “Court Security Agent” assaulted the citizen journalist on a public sidewalk, while demanding his identification.
But he didn’t, by about a foot.
An Aurora Police cruiser appeared a red light caught in a video going viral from the local news, and right behind an officer from his own department telling thedenverchannel.com that his city’s police department wants a red light camera system.
“Running a red light is against the law,” deadpanned the officer as a Chevy Suburban, and white sports-car, pickup truck, a Dodge sedan, and a Honda suv, then a Caterpillar excavator all turned left legally.
A French journalist revealed the truth about war crimes, and was arrested by the UN this past week at The Hague.
She wrote a news article and book which earned a contempt of court sentence, handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which is now run by the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, as you can read about in the PDF below.
A Kansas Trump rally supporter declared, “RaHoWa” an anti-semetic word coined in 1987 meaning Racial Holy War” to a Dutch journalist, and repeated it before revealing his true intentions to a non-white supremacist as you can see as the video shows in under 18 seconds down below.
The still unidentified Trump supporter told the semetic-looking journalist from northern Europe to “Go To Auschwitz” twice as he departed the rally.
A high-ranking sheriff’s official in Arizona refused to allow a television news reporter into a press conference on the basis that the reporter “hates the sheriff.”
But the reporter only exposed an embarrassing truth about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu that the sheriff had been denying for years.
That he was, in fact, a sadistic schoolmaster who oversaw and encouraged the abuse of children during a prior career more than a decade ago in Massachusetts.
