Scholar Robin Andersen decodes big media's take and MediaChannel affiliates report from the scene in D.C. - Aliza Dichter , editor. As They Covered D.C. Fordham University Media Studies Professor Robin Andersen reports that news coverage of the demonstrations in Washington revealed more about the nature and depth of the crisis in journalism than it explained about the protest itself. From The Media Channel , April 19 2000. As the organizers prepared to set up a similar operation in D.C., Rachel Rinaldo filed this report explaining how the IDC works, and why this isn't your parents' newsroom. From Paper Tiger Television , .
Some Journalists Are More Equal Than Others.
When the IMF issued credentials to reporters seeking to cover its meetings and briefings, some journalists were flat-out denied. As the Freedom Forum reports, at least four other journalists and photographers from the AP and UPI wire services were arrested or injured during the police crackdown on the demonstrations. From Freedom Forum , April 17 2000. As protesters prepared for a peaceful campaign against the policies of the IMF and World Bank, the press warned of a repeat of the mayhem of Seattle. But the mainstream news outlets got it wrong in Seattle, reports FAIR, and they got it wrong in D.C., too.