When the media gets it right on Ferguson, Missouri

[kpete]

Jake Tapper: "I just want to show you this, Don. I just want to show you this, okay? Let me just give you an idea of what's going on. The protestors—here's this main intersection—the protestors have moved all the way down there. They're about half a block down here. (asks cameraman to turn camera) They're all the way down there, okay? Nobody's threatening anything; nobody's doing anything; none of the stores here that I can see are being looted; there's no violence."
http://www.shakesville.com/2014/08/ferguson_19.html

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Over the last 10 days, with nearly non-stop protests over the police killing of an unarmed teenager in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, media coverage has often—for lack of a better word—sucked. But sometimes they get it right, so credit where credit is due to CNN's Jake Tapper.

I just want to show you this, Don. I just want to show you this, okay? This is just give you an idea of what's going on. The protesters—here's this main intersection—the protesters have moved all the way down there. They're about half a block down. Here, Don, watch with me. They're all the way down there. Okay? Nobodies threatening anything, nobodies doing anything, none of the stores here that I can see are being looted. There's no violence. Now I want you to look at what is going on in Ferguson, Missouri, in downtown America. Okay? These are armed police. With machine, not machine guns, with semi-automatic rifles, with batons, with shields, many of them dressed for combat. Now why they're doing this, I don't know because there is no threat going on here, none [pointing to protesters] that merits this [pointing to police line]. There is none. Okay? Absolutely there has been looters, absolutely over the last nine days there has been violence, but there is nothing going on, on this street right now, that merits this scene out of Bagram. Nothing. So if people wonder why the people of Ferguson, Missouri, are so upset, this is part of the reason. What is this? (gesturing to police line) This doesn't make any sense.

VIDEO & MORE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/jake-tapper-police-ferguson_n_5690671.htmlhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/19/1322903/-When-the-media-gets-it-right-on-Ferguson-Missouri
and here:
http://wonkette.com/557580/ferguson-goes-nuts-again-its-all-jake-tappers-fault

[Iron Man]

1. I'm surprised to see that happened on CNN.

[redwitch]

2. They counterbalanced it with water cannon lady.

I saw this report on CNN last night and I wanted to cheer. Just now I read somewhere on DU that a CNN anchor suggested the cops should use water cannons to control the crowd.

Disgusted in NY