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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: tuolumnejim on September 12, 2008, 10:38:20 PM
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Instead of a peaceful "Blogger" being eacorted out, I'm thinking more along the lines of BUSH LIED BROWN PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE OF THE ROVE MADE TSUNAMI MACHINE!
Its a brand new campfire, but it may just blaze.
Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3988556)
rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-13-08 03:31 AM
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Blogger removed from evacuee shelter
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/loca...
A reporter with The Galveston County Daily News who blogged as an embedded evacuee at Crockett High School was asked to leave the shelter by Austin school officials on Friday.
Sara Foley, 26, who boarded a bus at the Island Community Center in Galveston, said she identified herself as a member of the media and told Red Cross officials and a City of Galveston public information officer that she planned to write about her experiences en route to and inside the shelter. She also indicated on shelter paperwork that she was a reporter.
As she took photographs of an altercation during breakfast — some people were yelling that they would have received better accommodations in jail, she said — an Austin police officer pulled her aside and escorted her to a Red Cross official, Foley said.
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About 5 p.m., the Austin School District contacted Foley's editor, Heber Taylor, and formally requested that she leave the shelter. Taylor and Foley complied and Foley is now staying with a friend in Austin.
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Umm..."bloggers" are not reporters. Reporters get paid by the news entity to be where they are...but they have no special rights to be anywhere except in their own newsroom. This "blogger" sounds like a professional trespasser who wanted to stir up shit and make a victim story. She has the right to hit the bricks and get the "F" out or get her head busted or get locked up for criminal trespass (class B miss. in Texas.)
Before any of you lurking DUmmies get your panties in a wad...I spent 15 years as a professional journalist (anchor, reporter, photojournalist, producer, editor and writer) with ABC, CBS and FOX. Suck it DUmmies!
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This "blogger" was also taking up space and resources in a shelter, just in case they could get the next scoop, when they could have easily been staying their "friends". I'd bet that they were a constant irritation to the others in the shelter as well as the people attempting to operate it, and that all parties are better off without her in place there.
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Cameras and recording devices are flat out NOT allowed in shelters due to the fact that people are there under the understanding that they have a reasonable expectation to privacy.
Not to mention the ******* shelters are for people who actually fekking well NEED them and this a-hole was soaking up a cot that could have been filled with an actual person in need.
People suck.