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

[simon collister]

Hi all

If we are indeed talking about the blog post then we should probably blogging etiquette which would mean eher updating the original blog post *or* posting a new, separate update blog post clarifying the situation.

Happy to draft something if requried.
Cheers
Simon





> From: j at jonathanleighton.com
> To: cc-webedit at lists.aktivix.org; mediateam at lists.riseup.net
> CC: jjjstevenson at fastmail.fm; muppet317 at hotmail.com; letyourlifesing at riseup.net
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:51:42 +0000
> Subject: [mediateam] Re: [Cc-webedit] "Injured" policeman peice
> 
> 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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