[Cc-webedit] "Injured" policeman peice

[Jon Leighton]

I have moderately strong reservations about taking it down. It means we
are doing exactly the same propaganda tricks that the MET were recently
accused of when they issued an instruction that none of their
publications could included pictures of officers without ID numbers
showing. I also don't think that it's in the spirit of a blog, in that
blog posts are written at a given time based on the information
available at that time.

Ideally, we would update the blog post with new information. I know
there is sensitivity about not ruining the Guardian story, but can
anyone think of a way around that for now? (Maybe "It has become clear
that this claim was falsified. A press release will be issued soon, when
we have all the information available.")

I've copied in the media list as this is relevant to them.

Jon

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 12:51 +0000, letyourlifesing at riseup.net wrote:
> I second taking this down. He didn't have a head injury, his collapse was
> fuck all to do with us. Paul (from Guardian) submitted his article for
> publication over a week ago and it's yet to come out.
> 
> > I agree with taking this down, and replacing it with something new once
> > we've got it.
> >
> > I think there was going to be an article in the Guardian about how the
> > police had to admit it was all bollocks, and until that's published we
> > can't say anything as they extracted it from the police, but I think it
> > might have been pulled or at least deferred. Copying in Sophia.
> >
> > Also Murray did a complaint to the BBC and I'm not sure where that got.
> > Again maybe there's nothing to post until we've got a result.
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> > Ed Lloyd-Davies wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I think it is pretty silly that we still have the whole "injured"
> >> policeman reaction thing at the bottom of the front page when we
> >> even have video of him collapse with heat exhastion (with clearly
> >> no head injury) and his colleagues pouring water over his head to
> >> cool him down. The media has convienently forgotten about this
> >> (given that parroting baseless police lies doesn't make them look
> >> good) which leaves us as the only people who are parroting those
> >> lies, which seems a bit weird. I think the post should be removed.
> >> It someone has time to write something to replace it about what
> >> actually happened so much the better.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Ed
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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