{"id":2568,"date":"2010-11-10T06:36:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/vdt-on-doj-at-sclc.html"},"modified":"2010-11-10T06:36:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:36:09","slug":"vdt-on-doj-at-sclc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/vdt-on-doj-at-sclc.html","title":{"rendered":"VDT on DoJ at SCLC"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading the VDT’s editorial yesterday morning,\n\nDOJ\u2019s lack of Judgment<\/a>,\nI noticed this:\n
\nGiven this era of YouTube, Internet blogs, and citizen journalists,\nwe have to ask why only credentialed members of the media were asked to leave?\n

\nSome of the people in attendance during Sunday’s meeting have\nopenly identified themselves in the past as active Internet bloggers.\n<\/blockquote>\nFor example when I stood up in the row behind the VDT reporter\nand identified myself as taking videos for LAKE for posting on the web?\nThe editorial continues:\n

\n\n<\/a>\nAny one of the people in attendance could have recorded the DOJ’s\nresponses and posted them,\nbut the DOJ didn’t ask to collect people’s cell phones.\n<\/blockquote>\nI also said that due to the sensitive nature of the subject,\ninstead of LAKE’s usual policy of videoing and posting everything\nthat seemed interesting at a public meeting,\nat this meeting I was only videoing people who asked to be videoed.\nIt wasn’t the DoJ’s responses that were sensitive\n(they said hardly anything after their introduction):\nit was what the people in the audience had to say.\n

\nI asked “the female DOJ attorney”, as the VDT calls her,\n\n\nif it would interfere with what she was doing in any way if I posted\nthe video of her introduction on the web. She said no, and handed\nme her card. Here’s the video,\n\nwith her name, Allison R. Brown,<\/a> which is not a secret:\n

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\nThe online version<\/a> of the VDT front page story is\nconsiderably shorter than the paper version.\n

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