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CBS Miami TV Reporter Confronts Me About Video Recording Him in Public
Photography is not a crime.com Blog ^ | May 2, 2013 | Carlos Miller

Posted on 05/06/2013 12:11:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

In the latest example of how the mainstream media is clueless to the online democratization of journalism, a CBS Miami reporter, who makes a living standing in front of the camera, confronted me about video recording him in public while on assignment.

Brian Andrews accused me of interfering with his job when I was not even talking to him or standing in his shot.

All I was doing was attempting to video record him interviewing my girlfriend, Rachel Mestre, about a brewing scandal involving a local towing company that she has been documenting on her blog.

My plan was to send her the video in case she wanted to use it on her blog because we all know that only a fragment of TV interviews ever make the final cut.

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I am NOT Carlos Miller--this is his testimony about his encounter with a Miami television reporter.

Amazing, isn't it, how the press think THEY ought to be immune from citizen journalists? The big money behind the networks and the newspapers...and to some degree even the local news operations...enables them to crank out liberal points of view...but when regular folks get the equipment and cajones to scrutinize THEM, then suddenly THEIR rights are being violated.

The funny thing is, I am betting the author of the web site is probably a liberal, too...but at least he is trying to hold someone accountable.

Not as good as James O'Keefe, though! :)

1 posted on 05/06/2013 12:11:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Tell him you’re undercover with 60 Minutes.


2 posted on 05/06/2013 12:16:02 PM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: SoFloFreeper

It is the same BS mentality that makes them think they can stay in areas told to evacuate (like hurricanes coming ashore or battle zones ) and run around like little girls while property owners are threatened with being arrested for trespassing/looting or what not for trying to guard their property.


3 posted on 05/06/2013 12:16:09 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Mainstream Media wants to be able to be free to cut/edit as they please to be able to put their slant & spin on anything in anyway that best suits them. So they’d prefer not to have things such as video interviewed videotaped since that could be used to quickly expose them for what they are.

It’s the same reason that bad cops don’t like to be videotaped on duty - it limits the possibility of their commiting crimes or lying about their activities and findings.


4 posted on 05/06/2013 12:16:18 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: SoFloFreeper
Andrews is just another metrosexual mediot who thinks he's way more important than he really is.
5 posted on 05/06/2013 12:18:29 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Brian Andrews accused me of interfering with his job...

1. What if you were? Short of disturbing the peace, is that a crime?

2. It is ironic to someone from a profession famous for interering the jobs of others (ambush journalism) to complain about the same from bystanders.

3. Back to item 1, what makes his job so much more important than anyone else's that he's so righteously indignant about it?

-PJ

6 posted on 05/06/2013 12:23:34 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I hope this starts a new trend, ala taping LEO’s on the job.


7 posted on 05/06/2013 12:23:46 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
". . . accused me of interfering with his job . . ."

Hmmm, same thing those unionized policemen say.

8 posted on 05/06/2013 12:33:21 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Darteaus94025

These reporters think they are celebrities. Report all the trash about them as well......


9 posted on 05/06/2013 12:34:28 PM PDT by Average Al
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To: SoFloFreeper
The media will never allow an interview they are recording to be recorded by someone else.

It does interfere with their job, as it makes editing the interview into a hatchet job piece of agitprop much more difficult.

10 posted on 05/06/2013 12:41:01 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: House Atreides
The Mainstream Media wants to be able to be free to cut/edit as they please to be able to put their slant & spin on anything in anyway that best suits them. So they’d prefer not to have things such as video interviewed videotaped since that could be used to quickly expose them for what they are.

I can't imagine anyone, private or public, being willing to be interviewed without making their own copy of the interview which they can bring out when the media starts clipping off answers or even mismatching questions and answers.

11 posted on 05/06/2013 12:43:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: Average Al

“These reporters think they are celebrities. Report all the trash about them as well......”

Can you just imagine pursuing reporters paparrazzi-style and then publishing all of their human frailties for the world to see? Can you just see them running to the liberal lawmakers to demand that ‘something’ be done?

I’ll guarantee they wouldn’t like to be treated the same way they treat everyone else.


12 posted on 05/06/2013 12:44:50 PM PDT by MeganC (You can take my gun when you can grab it with your cold, dead fingers.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

An unedited original can come in mighty handy!


13 posted on 05/06/2013 12:48:13 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: MeganC
Let's see...

What if we had known of Jessica Savitch's cocaine addiction?

What if we had known of Charles Kuralt's bigamous families?

-PJ

14 posted on 05/06/2013 12:48:46 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SampleMan; All
I have filmed media personnel many times when they were interviewing somebody.

In many, but not all, instances there were multiple media types filming the same interview, and others doing the same thing sometimes would be within the frames of their shoot. No one ever complained.

In the instance cited here, the filmer was filming a friend being interviewed and should be allowed to.

Experienced media people have no problem with someone recording their interviews, this one seems a bit green, wet behind the ears.

15 posted on 05/06/2013 12:54:15 PM PDT by Syncro ("So?")
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16 posted on 05/06/2013 12:58:42 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It bears remembering that there is no such thing as THE PRESS in the sense that word is used today — some sort of elite group whose members are allowed preferential treatment under law. In the Constitutional sense, “the press” is a technological device for disseminating information.

One cannot be a “member” of the press. One can only have access to a press.

Any device which enables one to state and publicize one’s views is a “press,” whether it be moveable type, offset, TV, radio, or the Internet. We all have free access to “the press,” meaning we have the right to pay any provider who wishes to sell us access.

In this regard, no CBS anchor has anymore claim to special treatment for being part of “the press” than does any blogger.


17 posted on 05/06/2013 1:02:38 PM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: SampleMan
It does interfere with their job, as it makes editing the interview into a hatchet job piece of agitprop much more difficult.

well said

18 posted on 05/06/2013 1:10:31 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (3 guns when you only have one arm? "I just don't want to get killed for lack of shooting back")
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To: MeganC

Exactly, they would melt in the sunlight.


19 posted on 05/06/2013 2:01:37 PM PDT by Average Al
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To: Maceman

Precisely


20 posted on 05/06/2013 2:34:33 PM PDT by Jemian (Happy Easter! He is risen!)
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