VIDEO: Your Credentials, Please

Posted on 23. Sep, 2008 by jeff.achen in Events, Video

Watch video of part I of the Society of Professional Journalist’s RNC and the media panel Sept. 21, 2008. Part’s II, III & IV will follow be available next week.

About the panel: Journalists who reported from the 2008 RNC in St. Paul as well as representatives from law enforcement, city government and media law experts joined together in a discussion moderated by Al Tompkins from The Poynter Institute about the media and law enforcement
at the RNC — what went wrong, what went right?

2 Responses to “VIDEO: Your Credentials, Please”

  1. Journalism or Propaganda? at subMedia

    24. Sep, 2008

    [...] More video from the presentation [LINK] [...]

  2. Ground Noise and Static and an update on my recent arrest | The Political Whore

    12. Oct, 2008

    [...] During this summer’s political conventions, the most interesting news and commentary to come out of Denver and St. Paul came from independent journalists. Folks from small underground outfits like Submedia.tv, I-Witness Video, Mobile Broadcast News, and others risked getting shot, gassed, and having the living shit kicked out of them by police for simply trying to get the word out about what was going on out there in the streets. This has led to some interesting debate regarding the validity of this kind of journalism as compared to, oh say FOX News, and whether these kind of “citizen journalists” should have the same rights and be held in the same regard as “official” credentialed journalists from corporate media outlets.  After dozens of media folk were arrested while filming or recording events during the RNC (including Yours Truly), The Society of Professional Journalists held a panel discussion to examine just how it all went down during the protests in St. Paul. You can see an interesting excerpt from the panel here and watch the first 30 minutes of the discussion here. [...]

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