Previously Arrested NYT City Room Freelancer Seen On Video Leading ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Discussion
Lee Stranahan at BigGoverment.com has a scoop which bears out suspicions expressed by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters and blogger Jammie Wearing Fool earlier this month. How the Times and other peripherally affected press outlets respond will be telling. You see, Natasha Lennard, a freelancer at the Times's City Room blog, Politico , and Salon , who was arrested on October 1 during the Brooklyn Bridge “march,” escaping (in her words) “with only a disorderly conduct violation summons, in no small measure because of my editors’ contacting Police Headquarters to ensure my swift release,” has been seen on tape leading a discussion of Occupy Wall Street participants, leading to obvious questions about what business she has ever had reporting on developments in this ongoing story. Stranahan's opening paragraphs (bolds are mine): A newly-discovered video– filmed by Occupy Wall Street supporters themselves –reveals that
Posted by
on October 24, 2011. Filed under