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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - deckeda - 01-28-2021
https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/43245677/channel-3-crew-threatened-with-arrest-after-asking-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-a-question-during-town-hall-meeting
"District 14 citizens were asked to register for the event and submit questions for Greene ahead of time"
Nothing like a little controlled event, eh?
"Greene's office invited the media to the event, including Channel 3's crew which had credentials to attend. Once on property, members of the media were told they would not be permitted to speak to anyone attending or ask any questions."
That's every kind of bullshit.
"Channel 3's reporter attempted to ask a question of Greene about the posts and the resolution to expel her from the House, but Greene said she was there to talk to her constituents."
"That's when a member of Greene's staff approached Channel 3's reporter and told her to leave the event. Greene's staff waived over a deputy who escorted Channel 3's reporter and photographer out of the building."
"The Channel 3 crew informed the deputy that they were invited to the public event and also had credentials to be there. The deputy threatened to arrest the crew and charge them with criminal trespassing if they did not leave the property."
"Channel 3 is working to get answers from the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office about the incident that took place."
"A spokesperson for Greene's office reached out to Channel 3 following the incident and said the reporter was removed because the event "was not a press conference" and she was not approved to ask questions. The spokesperson, who called from Washington, D.C., said the reporter caused a "disruption" by asking her question."
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Yeah reporters are taught in school to ask questions no matter what.
Yeah editors are former reporters.
Yeah execs are former editors.
And so they get exploited like this. In my opinion there's no "high road" of integrity present by placing yourself into a victim's position. If you know you won't be allowed to do your job, have the temerity to walk away. Have a supervisor that supports this. Allow "the competition" to maybe-possibly get the scoop instead. Be willing to blink first if it means sedition isn't given oxygen.
As wrong as Greene is, local media is helping her. We NEED more sunshine aimed at the cockroaches. They have a remarkable way of scattering. I'm not convinced this does that.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - cbelt3 - 01-28-2021
Still working on that authoritarian playlist, I see...
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - Ombligo - 01-28-2021
Just as an aside -- we have a free press, the government has no place credentialing them. By giving any elected person the power to decide who is a journalist, it also gives them the power to decide who isn't. That is not an open and free press.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - Lux Interior - 01-28-2021
And the idiots will claim that the reporters were trying to suppress MTG's free speech.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - rgG - 01-28-2021
PSA. If you can avoid Whitfield County GA, do.
I moved there right out of college, for a job. I stayed for 9 years. I just couldn’t take it any longer.
My dad was from Chattanooga, TN which is just across the state line about 30 miles away. He said Dalton, which is the county seat of Whitfield county and where I worked, has been someplace you would want to avoid forever. As he put it, “Don’t drink the water. There must be something bad in it.”
I think it may have more to do with generations of inbreeding, and I am not kidding, all the natives there are closely related. It is one of the strangest places I have ever been/lived and I have lived in a lot of places.
I am not surprised this nut job is from that area, at all.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - vision63 - 01-28-2021
They need to be credentialed to go beyond police lines etc. Otherwise, anybody can call themselves a journalist and say, walk all over a murder scene for example.
If it was a public event in a unreserved free and open public space that's one thing. If the space was reserved and controlled for a time period, then there's that scenario. People don't get to interrupt those things.
If they really felt they had a right to ask questions under those circumstances, they could have allowed themselves to be arrested and go from there.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - sekker - 01-28-2021
Seems to me, this was a public event. If the reporter is a member of Rep MTG community, why can't the questions simply be from her 'constituents'?
Total BS, time to shine even more light.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - Ted King - 01-28-2021
I'm with vision63 on this one. If this was what legally qualifies as a private event and the reporters were allowed into the private event by saying they would abide by the "terms of service" that they would be allowed to observe but not ask questions, then I think the people who put on the event were within their rights to tell the reporter to leave. And the police were not doing anything wrong in escorting the reporter out of the event.
I guess a lot depends on whether or not this was legally a private event.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - Ombligo - 01-28-2021
vision63 wrote:
They need to be credentialed to go beyond police lines etc. Otherwise, anybody can call themselves a journalist and say, walk all over a murder scene for example.
I worked for 30 years as a journalist and never received credentials from any government agency (I received press passes, but those were issued based upon my newspaper's issued credential). Even then, it was up to the police whether we were allowed past the lines established for the general public. However, SCOTUS has determined that the press has the right to be where the general public is allowed. That is one reason campaign events became ticketed - the organizers can then claim it was not open to the general public and therefore control media access.
All I know of this situation is from the information given, but the police have likely opened themselves up to a lawsuit for violation of constitutional rights. That usually results in a hefty fine which is then donated to a civil rights group.
Re: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reporter threatened with arrest by Sheriff - sekker - 01-28-2021
Ted King wrote:
I'm with vision63 on this one. If this was what legally qualifies as a private event and the reporters were allowed into the private event by saying they would abide by the "terms of service" that they would be allowed to observe but not ask questions, then I think the people who put on the event were within their rights to tell the reporter to leave. And the police were not doing anything wrong in escorting the reporter out of the event.
I guess a lot depends on whether or not this was legally a private event.
I agree except - if this was a 'private' event, I want to see the bill for off-hour security paid to the citizens. Just because she is a member of the US House does NOT mean she has the 'right' to hold 'private' meetings and have those paid for by the public.