2016 Republican National Convention
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At RNC, Media Put a Happy Face on Suppression of Speech
Originally published at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. News media could either be our ally or our enemy—we wanted them as an ally,” Laurie Pritchett said in a 1985 interview about his strategy as police chief in Albany, Georgia, during Martin Luther King, Jr.’s desegregation efforts in 1962. Pritchett famously ordered his officers to enforce…
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Police Keep Blocking Access to Cleveland’s Public Square Using “T-Formation”
(See my Perisocope video of the police action here.) For the past hour and a half, police have gradually pushed demonstrators and other members of the public out of the center of Public Square in Cleveland, the site of 2016’s Republican National Convention. A local ABC reporter told (about 4:30 in the Periscope video) her…
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Prophets of Rage Take Over Streets of Cleveland on Day One of Republican National Convention
Day one of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, began with an eerie hush. The streets were empty for much of the morning as a few drivers and walkers (including Wolf Blitzer) alike tried to figure their way around the 10-foot tall fence – plastered with “No Drone Zone” signs courtesy of the…
Gunar Olsen 