Reporters For Right-Wing Publication Daily Caller Beaten By NYPD, Helped By Protesters

[KoKo]

Reporters For Right-Wing Publication Daily Caller Beaten By NYPD, Helped By Protesters

By Zaid Jilani on Nov 17, 2011 at 1:20 pm

The Daily Caller's Michelle Fields faced abuse from the NYPD and help from protesters.
The right-wing Daily Caller website has been anything but kind to Occupy Wall Street, even going so far as to condemn the protest movement as generating riots, murder, and arson.

But when a couple of Daily Caller employees were at Occupy Wall Street this morning, it was the very protesters they had been demonizing who ended up helping them out. Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields — who faced off with actor Matt Damon earlier this year over education policy — and videographer Direna Cousins both claim they were attacked by the New York Police Department (NYPD) while covering the raucous protests in the Financial District today. Fields added that Occupy Wall Street protesters immediately came up to her to offer their help:

“Direna had a camera in her hand and I had a microphone, and we were being hit,” she said. “When I fell to the ground I said at one point, ‘I’m just covering this! I’m covering this!’ And the officer just said, ‘Come on, get up, get up,’ before pulling me up by my jacket.’” “The protesters came up to me right away and asked if I needed any medical assistance. They were actually very kind and helpful. It was the police officers who were very aggressive,” Fields added.


http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/17/371349/reporters-for-right-wing-publication-daily-caller-beaten-by-nypd-helped-by-protesters/

[deutsey]

1. Imagine that

It'll be interesting to see if this changes her reportage.

[CTyankee]

2. what a great report! I hope she is now reporting more truthfully for her paper...

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Don't count on it. She'll probably blame the protesters. n/t

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. "If it weren't for the protesters she would not be there to cover them...

...therefore she would not have been in harm's way blah blah blah quack quack quack."

Sumptin' like dat.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. The chess player in me is smiling

That's a blunder by the NYPD. I think it presents an opportunity to win a pawn.

[mmonk]

5. The truth always wins in the end no matter the outcomes of the moment.

[Lint Head]

6. THIS is how we win.

[KoKo]

9. one reporter at a time...one Ayn Rander at a time...One Wall St. Hedge Funder at a Time...on and on

...and on..

[countryjake]

7. K&R!

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