Truth vs Fiction-NYT Takes 20 minutes to shift blame & make up crap About OWC Protesters

Kent State massacrer so they can show the masses citizens have no right to peaceful protests in this country, and they will silence the masses.

Maybe Al did it.

Inquiring minds want to know why he rewrote Colin's piece and added his name. I'd be willing to bet he knows Tony Baloney.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/business/media/13askthetimes.html?pagewanted=all

Talk to the Newsroom: Police Bureau Chief

Published: October 12, 2008



Al Baker, police headquarters bureau chief, answered questions from readers Oct. 13-17, 2008. To move directly to the most recent answer, click here.

A native of Brooklyn and a resident of Manhattan, Mr. Baker took over his current post in the fall of 2005. He joined The Times in May 2000 as a reporter on the Metropolitan Desk and his first assignments were covering Westchester County as well as the financial crisis in Nassau County, on Long Island.

After Sept. 11, 2001, he moved into assignments covering security and the Police Department through December 2002, when he went to work in New York’s statehouse bureau in Albany. There he wrote about politics and government, focusing on the state’s budget woes, until October 2005.

He then returned to police headquarters, in Lower Manhattan, a place steeped in his family history: His father, Lieutenant Alfred J. Baker, is a retired citywide supervisor in the N.Y.P.D. Emergency Service Unit.

In addition to covering daily episodes of crime and disorder, the stories emanating from the bureau over Mr. Baker’s tenure have touched on police policy and politics and on the culture of the department, including its instances of officer wrongdoing.

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This seems grotesquely unethical. How many of the NYT readers know that Baker has deep and long ties to the NYPD?

filed from there, not from the bridge a couple of blocks down the way.

ie Police state.

are so damn clueless.

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Can't have the rabble getting any more big ideas...

According to the newspapers web site. So I'm guessing he is the de facto spinmeister for all things police related.

Fuck him. Fucker.

Oh, you were speaking metaphorically, ok, my bad.

Fuck you NYT and FUCK YOU NYPD.

:argh:

:eyes:

:hurts:

Police Arrest About 500 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
By AL BAKER and COLIN MOYNIHAN

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/?hp

In this one they cite the dispatches of the buses "in a planned move against the protestors."

"...All The Hype That's Fit To Spew"

Are people REALLY shocked?

there is something that is against the law, you see a large group of people act in a way that would break it

What do you do

a: decide that it must be legal since nobody tells you that you shouldn't do it and join in.
b: Decide against joining in since its obviously still illegal and follow the guidelines of the organizers.

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Unless I'm wrong the organizers advocated AGAINST going on the road itself and staying on the pedestrian area since breaking the law obviously can lead to arrests

the addition of his name to the By line is... conspicuous and deserves to be highlighted as well.

So I'll give this one the same treatment

:kick: (Cept I'm leaving a donkey in this one)

Al Baker is pretty much a public information officer/PR person working for the police--who has
a job at the New York Times.

OMFG...when you look at what happened to that story within 10 minutes and you see that ol' Al Baker
and his spin machine whipped into gear--it's obvious what happened.

Wow. Looks like we're scaring these corrupt criminals to the point that they're scrambling to make
the protesters look bad.

This really is sick, and the New York Times should be totally ashamed of its disgusting lies and spin that
put this publication on par with the Weekly World News.

disgusting. I hope they get called on this eevil truth-twisting bullshit far and wide...

during hurricane Katrina.

:argh:

So the New York Times lies? Who'da thunk it?

Just go back and look at their reporting of ANY Democratic candidate since Reagan, and fact-check it. Or just google "New York Times lies" and make your own collection of already-documented instances.

Didn't we all learn something important about the NY Times during the Iraq war build up? You can find factual news in that paper if you look real hard and quickly.

I don't know why an archive of them weren't available, though. From the same link, but later:

"... many protesters said that they thought the police had tricked and trapped them, allowing them onto the bridge and even escorting them across, only to surround them in orange netting after hundreds of them had entered.

“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us onto the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who was in the march but was not arrested...

Etan Ben-Ami, 56, a psychotherapist from Brooklyn who was up on the walkway, said that the police seemed to make a conscious decision to allow the protesters to claim the road. “They weren’t pushed back,” he said. “It seemed that they moved at the same time.”

Mr. Ben-Ami said he left the walkway and joined the crowd on the road. “It seemed completely permitted,” he said. “There wasn’t a single policeman saying ‘don’t do this’.”

He added: “We thought they were escorting us because they wanted us to be safe.” He left the bridge when he saw officers unrolling the nets as they prepared to make arrests..."



http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/

gets darker and darker.

Thanks to whomever posted that the New York Times was the paper that LEAD US INTO THE IRAQ WAR.

REC.

Even when they are telling us what we think we want to hear THE MEDIA IS NOT ON OUR SIDE.

THE MEDIA IS NOT ON OUR SIDE.

THE. MEDIA. IS. NOT. ON. OUR. SIDE.

Thank you. :)

Hurt their wallets......
Don't buy the paper, don't read their website!

:shrug:

No question about it.

Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge

This version bends over backward to report both sides of it, including police actions that brought people into the roadway.

I got no complaints with this one.

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In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.

The police said it was the marchers’ choice that led to the enforcement action.

“Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the New York Police Department, said. “Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested.”

But many protesters said they believed the police had tricked them, allowing them onto the bridge, and even escorting them partway across, only to trap them in orange netting after hundreds had entered.

“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us onto the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who marched but was not arrested.

A video on the YouTube page of a group called We Are Change shows some of the arrests. .... etc.

y'know, this might lead to shit overflowing everywhere.

:evilgrin: :hide:

I can't find it now, but it got all the facts out in the first few paragraphs, including the ones regarding the alleged police behavior.