New York Times Freelancer Arrested In Occupy Wall Street Protest
By Noel Sheppard | October 01, 2011 | 23:41
The folks at the New York Times aren't happy with just reporting the news. They want to be a part of it.
Such is quite apparent given the arrest of Times freelancer Natasha Lennard during an Occupy Wall Street protest Saturday:
In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 500 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon. [...]
A freelance reporter for The Times, Natasha Lennard, was among those arrested. She was later released.
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Natasha Lennard, William K. Rashbaum and Elizabeth A. Harris contributed reporting.
Ain't that sweet?
Lennard isn't only affiliated with the Times. Her bio at Politico boasts a connection there as well:
Natasha Lennard is a staff writer for Click. A recent graduate of Columbia Journalism School, she hails from England, where she attended the University of Cambridge and majored in philosophy.
Before joining the Politico team, Natasha spent her summer after grad school on the intern rounds in New York, working at The New York Times (on the metro desk) and at Salon.com (working with the politics editor).
Click is Politico's "People Watching in Washington" blog.
As JWF observed, Lennard's Twitter account was filled with activity concerning this event:
So this is what gets paid to "report" the news by press outlets such as the New York Times, Politico, and Salon - someone participating in a protest against America's top financial institutions.
Can the bias be any more obvious?
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Curious
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 4:50am.
I am wondering, do these protestors want all businesses shut down? How would people earn a living if there were no jobs? Do they want a world where everyone is dependent on the government for everything? Like the old USSR?
Yes, the government
Submitted by dr-go on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 6:57am.
should control all aspects of commerce and be the creator of everyone's livelihood. Who knew, when our president was touting green energy and saying it would create green jobs, that the government was under the table bankrolling virtually the entire solar and wind industries? To allow his democrat power money pals to monitor the funding these corporations did and will continue to receive makes Nixon look like a saint. Will there be any explanations?
I was pretty well aware of it.
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 7:13am.
No sane investor (at least so sane investor who has amassed any significant amount of wealth that he/she can invest in long-shot ventures) would be dumping money into an energy source venture that is almost completely dependent upon the price of oil staying high, when we KNOW that OPEC will simply lower the price of oil if wind/solar begins to compete. T. Boone Pickens tried it a few years back (remember his commercials on TV?) when he got a bug up his arse about wind power, and he got his skinny old arse handed to him by the market, and he subsequently sold off his wind energy holdings for a loss of about two billion dollars.
Green energy sources will, for the most part, sit on the sidelines until oil and natural gas truly becomes scarce, little by little. And then you will see solar and wind become viable and more widespread, little by little.
Issues with #occupywallst
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:10am.
Here's what I don't get:
Fronting by George
Submitted by bknownst on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:26am.
Guess you haven't heard. This whole production on Wall Street was paid for and brought to you by the puppet master a.k.a George Soros who's specialty is collapsing governments and destroying societies.
Ah
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:32am.
I missed that tidbit. Well, I guess that's not surprising. Corporate money of the extreme funding anti-capitalists refusing to help themselves. Makes perfect sense.
BK, according to a local "activist"
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 9:48am.
who got arrested last week, and then flew home so she wouldn't have to make her court appearance, they "want" jobs, they just don't want to have to work.
I think it's the "Birthright Job" they're after, you know, they just have to show up a couple of times a week, then get paid a wage consistent with their desires, like about $100K to start with. And, of course, "Promotions". LIke every two months or so, until they become what they hate, a higher-up in "Corporate America".
Get a job or a real major, hippie!
Submitted by JeffC... on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:56am.
They probably are getting course credit from their ex-hippie professors who are missing the good old days. That being said, I'm sure those courses are preparing the yutes for jobs in the real world. /sarc
How many of the protestors have real majors? Heck, how many of the even know where their college's science and engineering departments are located?
Sorry, I hit reply twice.
Submitted by JeffC... on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:59am.
Sorry, I hit reply twice.
Add to the list:
Submitted by kch50428 on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 10:32am.
11. Where are all the non-white people at? Seems like a mostly racially pure group from pictures I've seen.
Safe bet bkeyser , 99.9% pictured will say they did. ans # 9
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 3:02pm.
#2 From an evolutionary (to slow for us to notice) view. What gives special nourishment to the transitory critters, as their mouth parts received a total overhaul from mosquito to a sea-lamprey.
Very a engorging job if you can get it.
#7 Is funnny
Second half of question #9... should read... crony socialism.
#10 Lots of them seen it.
A fellow Democrat when Reagan was one.
bK
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 6:01pm.
Try to get this: http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/09/26/video-liberal-protestor-chokes-o...
Yes, this protest makes perfect sense. In what world it makes sense I can't say.
If my daughter was cutting classes and attending this thing I'd cut her money off so fast her little head would spin and I'd haul her little a$$ back home and tell her to get a job. Luckily, she enjoys the finer things in life and knows daddy and I don't supply them.
She's not a New York Times staff member
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 10:29am.
"The folks at the New York Times aren't happy with just reporting the news. They want to be a part of it."
That's not true. This woman is a freelancer. She's independent. That means she's not part of the staff. She doesn't represent the New York Times any more than I represent NewsBusters.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Lennard Is a Lot More Than "Freelancer" or "Stringer"
Submitted by Sancho Panza on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 6:37am.
Her own bio lists her as a "news intern" at the paper, and she has been writing for the paper for almost two years, according to her clips on the Internet.
The media left's parallel looniverse
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 10:38am.
Gosh -- it seems that dissent and protest are once again fashionable on the left. And in the mainstream media
Remember 2009, when 300,000 first time Tea Party activists gathered on The Mall to protest the Obama/Pelosi/Reid heathcare debacle?
They left the place cleaner than when they arrived. BAD DISSENT. Bad bad bad.
Unlike 300 filthy commies in lower Manhattan who trash wherever they land. GOOD DISSENT people.
'I wasted time, now doth time waste me.' --- William Shakespeare
Another one on the protests
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 11:56am.
From the Telegraph UK. Great video that really depicts the plight and struggle the young are facing. Highly intelligent, enlightened, and yet so completely subjugated by the evil corporations. At least they've got a strong and coherent message.
Another question though- if corporations are not people, how can they be evil? Someday, I hope to be young and stupid so I can understand.
My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchfo
Submitted by OxyCon on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 2:18pm.
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks,” Barack Obama told the CEOs of the world’s most powerful financial institutions on March 27...
Hmmmm...I wonder who is responsible for the leftist loons harassing everyone in NYC?
Could it be the Community Agitator in the White House?
Does the Bridiot hippie wannabe have a green card?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 2:51pm.
If not, she should be deported and put on the undesirable/no admit list.
If she does have a green card, it should be revoked and she should be deported and put on the undesirable/no admit list.
Wasn't she carrying a police press card?
Submitted by Sancho Panza on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 5:43pm.
If she left her "metro desk" without a police press card to cover a continuing demonstration, both she and her editors are sorely remiss. If she did not display her press card, she should never be allowed to cover such events again.
New Liberal Sensabilities
Submitted by Al Teal on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:34pm.
If all the protesters are white, that proves that they are racists, right? That is what liberals say about all TEA party supporters, even though many are not white.
White liberal protesters are violent, anti-social, dirty, and they vandalize the areas where they gather. Many are arrested for violent behavior.
TEA party supporters are peaceful, civil, bathed, and they leave the areas where they gather cleaner than when they arrived. None are ever arrested.
Which group would you choose? Your answer proves who you are.
from the times article: 'As
Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 8:03am.
from the times article:
'As a freelancer, I did not have an official police press pass.'
'A few feet away from me, I saw two young children, no older than 8, clinging to their mother.' I guess this comment was meant to engender sympathy for the lib mom, who stupidly brought her children to a libby protest.
'...marchers made the decision to move off the sidewalk into the road at the bridge’s entrance to chants of “off the sidewalks, into the streets.”
She had no business covering it, and The Times shouldn't have
Submitted by Sancho Panza on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 10:25am.
used her reportage under the newspaper's own official guidelines. Just imagine a Tea Party protester covering a Tea Party demonstration for The Times. The guidelines were restated and reinforced after the reporter who covered the Supreme Court was photographed marching prominently in a parade for abortion rights.
She had no business covering it, and The Times shouldn't have
Submitted by Sancho Panza on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 10:25am.
used her reportage under the newspaper's own official guidelines. Just imagine a Tea Party protester covering a Tea Party demonstration for The Times. The guidelines were restated and reinforced after the reporter who covered the Supreme Court was photographed marching prominently in a parade for abortion rights.
Should we really expect anything less...
Submitted by stage9 on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 11:28am.
from the radicals at the Pravda Times?
If they WEREN'T involved, I would worry they were becoming too Conservative!
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Update on Natasha Lennard
Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 9:25pm.
Impartial...? Hmm.. . not so much. h/t to Breitbart , obviously :)