Daily caller reporters helped by OWS protesters

[nadinbrzezinski]

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

I find this not amazing, knowing OWSers. Potentially will help change dynamic.

[Uncle Joe]

1. This is good and a symbolic rebuttal against the likes of Rove.

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.

Thanks for the thread, nadinbrzezinski.:thumbsup:

[alfredo]

6. Some times an act of kindness makes all the difference.

There was an informant that moved into our building. She was supposed to gather evidence against us, but we treated her with charity even after she was outed. I was the one that sniffed her out. After a few weeks, I came up to and said "you are not one of us." She confessed on the spot. She told me that the police didn't treat here with respect, and we were much nicer to her.

the last time I saw her, she was nude, sitting on the back of a harley. She had sparklers in each hand. I learned later that she married a member of George Harrison's band.

[Uncle Joe]

7. That's one hell of a transition,

but even if the act of kindness doesn't make a difference with that individual, it may give others pause to think longer about the stereotypical propaganda they were fed.

[alfredo]

10. Let's hope they planted a seed. The girl I referenced probably had doubts

Well before her confession.

[trumad]

2. The same dumb ass reporter who took on Matt Damon.

I take what they say with a huge grain of salt.

[Kber]

3. That's an educating experience, I imagine.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I suspect as well

Just came through the twitter

[gratuitous]

5. Don't be too hard on them

How were the Occupy folks to know they were helping such nitwits?

Will it change the dynamic? My guess is that for part of one news cycle, the media toadies will say sort of nice things about their rescuers. But it will be back to bashing as usual by this weekend.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Remember what happened at Tahrir

When one reporter finally had it with lies?

And the more that happens the more bubbles are burst.

[2pooped2pop]

9. Most of the occupiers would have still helped her

even after knowing who she was. Paying it forward.