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

[Matt Megarry]

If someone wrote a blog, that would knock it off the front page! - perhaps
best of all would be a blog piece detailing what we now know about what
happened!

mattx

I don't have the energy, time, or knowledge to do this - sorry

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Jon Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>wrote:

> 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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