The journalistic freedom guarantee of the U.S. Constitution has passed into history.
The first wave of news shutdown is the well known co-opting by main stream media to avoid certain news and reporting of only the government's version of developing stories.
Some relief seemed to exist with alternative internet media, but last night's Alex Jones Info Wars reveals the frailty of stream reporting.
Together with five news streamers uploading video in real-time from St. Louis County, the Info Wars reporters live on the Alex Jones Show all had their streams go dead at the same time, the result of suspected military blocking equipment.
All five streaming systems began working again awhile later, all at the same time.
Has there been any investigation/response from the Alex Jones production team regarding the streaming interruption?
Kevin Smith, aka The Kevin Smith Show, alledged on many occasions of being blocked by hackers. I carried his live show and believe even my network connection was interrupted during his show occassionally at the height of this activity.
Specifically about the Alex Jones event mentioned in my post above, the reporters were live at a prescribed time and described an experience they'd had earlier, but they did not mention trying to get an "official" explanation.
The Jones reporters will be live daily during a portion of the show, since St. Louis County is nearing the grand jury decision regarding the cop who shot a boy.
The area is stacked with federal fire-power, 100 DHS vehicles are parked in a garage of a Drury Inn, the national guard has been brought in, together with thousands of local police. Some believe the stage is set for a false flag event.
By contrast the actual protesters are carefully organized and playing by the rules.
It is highly unlikely that the authorities would admit having jamming capability, while they have already shown a determined intention to close down independent media, i.e., arresting some of them, shining lights into their cameras, turning on the ELRAD noise truck, pepper spray directly to the eyes, to name some documented events.
Commenting on radio program interuption, such as possible with the Kevin Smith Show, it is also possible that a technician at the cable company who has an attitude could meddle with signals. There's probably no way to find out.
It was reported that only administration "selected" journalists were allowed to cover the private announcement by the President Thursday night.
Such control, whether by denial of physical access or electronically blocking reporting, is the same as censorship of the news and is very dangerous.
Neil
True enough, Neil Radio8z, using "select" news reporters is what I'm seeing here with the unfolding Ferguson story.
At appointed times the local tv and paper media arrive, stand INSIDE the police lines, and are fed stories about "what happened here today."
Earlier, while the protesters and police dance back and forth no members of the main stream media are on hand to witness what actually takes place. That's when the police become annoyed by the presence of alternative media and go to work to discredit and disable them.
Yet another tactic is using certain websites where off-duty police post the criminal records of anyone they identify with the alternative media. They try to humiliate them into giving up.
Although not directly related to radio, certainnly related to news coverage, especiqlly independent news coverage, I have been a follower and participant in this website:
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/
For quite some time. You want to talk about restricted news coverage, violation of constitutional rights, police brutality, etc it's all documented here and updated daily. It's rather mind boggling and frustrating.
Interesting update on the Ferguson officer as well.
No time to share more comments on this, as we're off to a country music show "Sweet Dreams and Honky Tonks" the music of Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Willliams and Loretta Lynn, performed live on stage!
Then tomorrow I'm installing a new console in the main studio at the commercial station where I work every day. I put in the last console 27 years ago, time to update! We gave the 27 year old Arrakis a retirement party on this mornings show, and we're replacing it with a new Arrakis MARC-15 - and I really shouldn't have mentioned that here as I don't want to hijack the thread -- but that's while I'll be scarce the next day or so. But the Oompah Hour will go out as scheduled Sunday morning!
But seriously, visit the link above if you're concerned about news coverage.
Tim in Bovey
I'm talking about you, Tim in Bovey!
You know something about every aspect pf the radio business.
The PINAC link adds a wonderful tool to my toy kit and it will keep me busier everyday than I was to begin with.
And holy heck... 27 years from an audio console. That's good.
I'm taking polka lessons.
The PINAC link posted above by Tim has been interesting to me as I've rolled through its content and compared it to what I've witnessed in recent events.
The primary interest served by PINAC is the right to video or photograph public events including police in the performance of duty.
Upon discovering the new audio podcast series started by PINAC I immediately scheduled the most recent, Podcast 2, which is very professionally done and details events in Ferguson and the role played by pictures in demonstrating the character of police engaging the public.
If your station looks for professional news feeds, PINAC is another good source.