[Cc-webedit] [mediateam] Re: "Injured" policeman peice

[Elly Robson]

I agree that we should update the information with a new blog asap.

but first of all we need to find out if paul lewis is going to run the
story, and when.

If he is not, then we can create the story ourselves by issuing a
press release to all major media outlets, writing a blog etc. with
footage edited like the Emily James video post-G20, forcing the press
to use a film that shows a more complete story of the swoop than just
that incident - I think it would get pick-up without him if we do have
the hard evidence (does Paul Lewis have more info than us???)

If he is going to run it, then we should probably hold off (depending
on the length of time until he releases the story), as I think he will
write a strong piece and there is more chance of it gaining currency
with it already printed in the guardian.

Time-wise though, I think a pre-copenhagen release of this story is
desirable, with or without paul lewis - the G20 expose happened very
rapidly after the G20 and I think post-copenhagen it will lose any
momentum it still has.

Can anyone get in contact with him?

Elly

2009/11/17 Jon Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>:
> 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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