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Get the latest on Genoa at the Italian IMC website. |
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by Sascha Meinrath, Urbana-Champaign IMC
Email: meinrath (nospam) urbana.indymedia.org (unverified!) |
20 Jul 2001
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I've talked with several people today who are looking for truthful information about what is going on in Genoa right now. For those who are looking for ongoing coverage from the streets, point your web browsers to: http://italia.indymedia.org |
There has already been a lot of controversy over the mainstream media coverage of the police killing of at least one protestor in Genoa, Italy. The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center has only brief coverage of the protests against the G8 meeting. For more in-depth coverage please check out the Italian IMC at: http://italia.indymedia.org
In addition, check out the difference in coverage between IMC journalists and the mainstream press -- see for example these two postings on the Italian IMC site:
italia.indymedia.org/front.php3article_id=4013&group=webcast
italia.indymedia.org/front.php3article_id=4012&group=webcast |
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More Genoa News Here: |
by Travas
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Current rating: 0
20 Jul 2001
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Go here for Genoa news and pictures:
http://www.infoshop.org/news6/genoa.html
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AP draws no conclusions from photos |
by Joe Futrelle
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20 Jul 2001
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The AP story posted at the New York Times site describes the photos posted on the Italian IMC site (which apparently are Reuters photos?)
"A sequence of Reuters news photos appeared to show the man, hooded and approaching a jeep of the Carabinieri paramilitary police with a fire extinguisher lifted in his arms, and an officer inside pointing a gun in his direction. Subsequent pictures showed him prone on the ground, the body lying beneath the jeep."
The story stops short of concluding that the Carabinieri officer wielding the gun shot the victim or that the jeep ran over him. (the story never uses the word victim). However it does lead with the Italian interior minister's unsubstantiated suggestion that "the protester was shot, apparently by a police officer *acting in self-defense.*" The story does not say what the threat to the officer was.
I have not seen a mainstream news story which describes this as a crime or suggests that the police were acting inappropriately.
Note that among others, an Associated Press T.V. producer was clubbed by police.
It is disappointing to me that the press speculates wildly about the Chandra Levy case but will not report the most elementary facts of this one. |
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Half-way decent corporate article... |
by Travas
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
20 Jul 2001
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...from ABC News. Has a video clip as well:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/genoa010720_protests.html
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