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RNC Roundup: The Coverage of the Coverage

Posted By Erica M On September 2, 2008 @ 2:24 pm In Crime, Media, News | Comments Disabled

Jason DeRusha asks if this weekend’s citizen journalist effort is adding any value ^[1]. He specifically mentions MnIndy ^[2] and The Uptake ^[3]. Good — and civil! — discussion in the comments.

Related to Jason’s question, MnIndy and The Uptake both have longer-form pieces up today addressing yesterday’s events. (Note that most of yesterday’s coverage was live, on-the-spot type stuff.) David Brauer’s got them all in today’s RNC-themed Daily Glean ^[4]. Follow all of his links.

Glenn Greenwald has a long and oft-updated piece at Salon ^[5], focusing largely, but not entirely, on the arrest of Amy Goodman ^[6] from Democracy Now! ^[7]. And he has this to say on the Saint Paul PD’s press conference:

Interestingly, all of the standard journalists asked very police-sympathetic questions (”how much property damage was done? were all the criminals part of this same RNC Welcoming Group? How many police officers were injured (answer: none)), while all of the independent journalists — such as those from the superb, intrepid site, The Uptake ^[8] — asked challenging and skeptical (i.e., real) questions.

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[1] asks if this weekend’s citizen journalist effort is adding any value: http://cbslocalblogs.prospero.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=WCCO_Jasonblog&entry=233

[2] MnIndy: http://www.minnesotaindependent.com

[3] The Uptake: http://theuptake.org

[4] RNC-themed Daily Glean: http://www.minnpost.com/dailyglean/2008/09/02/3280/rnc_glean_the_best_protest_video_stories

[5] long and oft-updated piece at Salon: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/01/protests/index.html

[6] Amy Goodman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman

[7] Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/

[8] The Uptake: http://theuptake.org/

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