Mediachannel.org news dissector's daily dispatch on the media coverage of events in LA
Saturday, August 12:
Fists in air, mouths open in a cheer, today's Los Angeles Times front page features a picture of activists in ecstasy in response to a federal judge's Friday ruling that formally barred the Los Angeles police from emulating their counterparts elsewhere and staging preemptive strikes against demonstrators. An American Civil Liberties Union intervention prompted a court injunction blocking the cops from seizing puppets, as they did in Philadelphia, or raiding the protesters' "convergence" headquarters, as was done during the IMF ruckus in D.C. Bizarre, isn't it, that in a town where the police often act as a paramilitary occupying force you have to be preemptive yourself if you want to protect the Bill of Rights? At least, the story is not being buried in the news
Original: NEWS DISECTOR'S DIARY ON MEDIA COVERAGE