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Annual Report on American Journalism
Submitted by Rick on Thu, 03/15/2007 - 4:48pm.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism produces a report every year on the state of journalism. The following is an excerpt from the section on Citizen Media:

Citizen Media

By the Project for Excellence in Journalism

James Carey, the esteemed Columbia University journalism professor who died in 2006, once wrote that journalism was essentially conversation among citizens. Communication was culture, he often said. It was creating a community “of conversationalists, of people who talk to one another, who resolve disputes with one another through talk,

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A Requiem for Victims of Chornobyl
Submitted by Rick on Thu, 03/15/2007 - 3:35pm.
Mar 18 2007 - 4:00pm
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This is what Democracy looks like.
Submitted by Rob Richards on Thu, 03/15/2007 - 3:19pm.
This is the second video out of the footage I shot at the Port of Tacoma on Monday, March 12th. If you watched the first video, you know that nothing has been done to provoke the police yet. In this video, you see that the protesters indeed remain peaceful, are surrounded Roman army style by riot police, and are attacked for it.

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Port Of Tacoma 3-12-07
Submitted by Rob Richards on Thu, 03/15/2007 - 9:06am.
Here is the first clip in the footage that I shot on Monday, some of what I shot in what will probably be the second clip made it on the news Tuesday. This first video shows the lead up to the police attack. Having been there, I can say that the police attacked totally unprovoked. If you were an apologist you might say that not disbursing was provocation, but not disbursing when told to during a protest does not warrant what you'll see in coming video. This first video may be a little boring, but it proves that we were indeed peaceful.

 

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