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Journalists Protest Police Treatment During Occupy Wall Street Eviction (New York Magazine)
Media organizations have not forgotten that the NYPD prevented numerous
journalists from viewing, and reporting on, the police's overnight eviction of
Occupy Wall Street protesters last week from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.
A group of news organizations has responded to the hostile treatment of
writers and journalists -- in pen, of course -- by requesting a meeting to
address their concerns stemming from incidents during the overnight raid.
George Freeman, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for the _Times_
Company, in a letter joined by the Associated Press; The New York _Post_; the
_Daily News_; Dow Jones; Thomson Reuters; and others, wrote: "The police
actions of last week have been more hostile to the press than any other event
in recent memory."
The letter continued:
> According to reports from our clients, credentialed media were identified,
segregated and kept away from viewing, reporting on and photgraphing vital
matters of public concern. A press pen was set up blocks away and those kept
there were further prevented from seeing what was occuring by the strategic
placement of police buses around the perimeter."
The group cited numerous examples of alleged misconduct, including an incident
where a photographer with ...
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