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KFI, KNX Cover LA Protest

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CTListener said:
This seems more significant -- an Australian TV reporter being hit in the calf by a rubber bullet. Witness reports seeing an officer aiming his gun at the reporter, who was obviously not part of the protest.

www.theguardian.com

Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet while covering anti-Ice protests in Los Angeles

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued a statement declaring that ‘all journalists should be able to do their work safely’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Actually, if you watch the video in the tweet embedded in that story, you can see the officer turn, aim at that reporter and fire.
 
Apparently Dr. Phil was embedded with ICE during the raids.


www.independent.co.uk

Dr Phil was embedded with ICE agents during LA raids

Conservative TV personality and Trump supporter wanted ‘to get a first-hand look at the targeted operations’
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

This isn't the first time. He's been doing some kind of reality/documentary show about the raids. Interesting that the Brits refer to him as a "conservative TV personality."
 
Loverofradio said:
I’m scared how far this will go. Not trying to dive off topic though. I thought KFI eliminated all reporters?
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I'm scared that this topic will devolve into the same kind of personal political statements that has already caused Lance to close two threads which were even closer to being broadcast-related than this one.

I hope that doesn't happen and that the participants here can limit the discussion to the actual coverage of the situation. The fact that you already have indicated that you want to stay on topic is a good start and I hope others here follow your example.
 
Perhaps if I could share something amusing that I saw amidst all of the news coverage, it will keep us a little more balanced ...

I tend to watch ABC7 Eyewitness News for local coverage of major events. I was practically glued to them during the Palisades and Eaton fires. Yesterday, one of their usually accurate field reporters, Tim Caputo, was up the street from where those Waymo robotaxis had been set on fire, and remarked on "the danger of the gas tanks exploding". Even after anchor Jory Rand pointed out that those are electric vehicles and that the danger was from the lithium ion battery packs causing caustic chemical vapor, less than two minutes later Caputo repeated the same inapplicable "fact".

One, Caputo was either unaware of the Waymos being EVs or of the danger from the battery packs in a fire ... but two, he didn't even correct himself after Rand gently corrected him on the air.
 
K.M. Richards said:
One, Caputo was either unaware of the Waymos being EVs or of the danger from the battery packs in a fire ... but two, he didn't even correct himself after Rand gently corrected him on the air.
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One of the issues reporters have in a highly technified society is any individuals impossible task of knowing at least a little about everything.

(My spell checker says “technified” does not exist. How about that as an example!)
 
DavidEduardo said:
One of the issues reporters have in a highly technified society is any individuals impossible task of knowing at least a little about everything.
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In my opinion, Caputo's original error falls very nicely into that observation, David. But repeating the error after the anchor corrected it is less easily explained away. He wasn't in an especially noisy environment so I don't think he was unable to hear Rand and he didn't appear on-camera to be distracted, so my sad laughter was at his apparent failure to self-correct his knowledge.
 
K.M. Richards said:
In my opinion, Caputo's original error falls very nicely into that observation, David. But repeating the error after the anchor corrected it is less easily explained away. He wasn't in an especially noisy environment so I don't think he was unable to hear Rand and he didn't appear on-camera to be distracted, so my sad laughter was at his apparent failure to self-correct his knowledge.
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Having been one of the guys covering the 1992 riots (the first reports of trouble were coming over KFWB on the rental car radio as I left LAX---that was on Wednesday afternoon and I flew home the following Monday having done 36 hours on live TV for the first shift, 18 for the second and 12 for the final two), I'm inclined to give Tim some slack.

In a situation like that, it's all in your head---no notes, no prep. And you're not focused completely on your work---you can't be with everything that's going on around you. At least part of your brain has to be watching out for your crew's safety and your own.

In my case, I had an AM/FM Walkman with all the presets set to either KNX or KFWB (in case it got bumped in my pocket) connected to an IFB that went into my left ear and the standard IFB (interruptible feedback), which carried the air and any messages from the live truck, KCAL's satellite desk, KTVK's satellite desk and up to five producers in KTVK's master control, some of whom just couldn't help but talk over each other, during which times I couldn't hear what the anchor was saying to me.

At minimum, Tim had the situation and the IFB to contend with.

And in far less stressful situations, I have---many times---been unable to get an erroneous word out of my head, repeatedly referring to a municipal airport as a memorial one (thank God I wasn't covering a plane crash), to the Bureau of Reclamation as the Bureau of Land Reclamation and several others that are probably on a blooper reel (or ten of them) in KTVK's storage.

He got the core of it right---there was a risk of an explosion from vehicles---and he may well have meant to say "battery" but his mouth kept saying "gas tank".
 
It would not shock me if and when every local TV Station or Radio Station in Los Angeles gets hit with the FCC license threat to their OTA signals given that at the start of the 2nd Trump Administration the FCC went after Audacy’s San Francisco News Outlet KCBS for airing the fallout of ICE Raids in Northern California.

I can see Los Angeles stations on both radio and TV have their licenses questioned over covering the protests but that won’t stop local stations from airing it on their respective networks apps. Yes it’s the first amendment and human rights argument as mentioned in past cases. But the Administration will play this as “a security issue” here. OnSceneTV, Calmatters, AP and Reuters will get an outright ban from the White House or following Trump anywhere in this country.

www.ftvlive.com

News Car Attack — FTVLive

This news vehicle got a new paint job…
www.ftvlive.com www.ftvlive.com

Now FTV Live is reporting that a news car has been hit and vandalized covering the protests.
 
Presuming that happens, and a court case results, this could likely raise the "fleeting expletive" issue again. I always thought the SCOTUS 2012 ruling was flawed by not directly addressing the FCC policy on same, only rescinding fines on the basis that the policy was "too vague".
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
It would not shock me if and when every local TV Station or Radio Station in Los Angeles gets hit with the FCC license threat to their OTA signals given that at the start of the 2nd Trump Administration the FCC went after Audacy’s San Francisco News Outlet KCBS for airing the fallout of ICE Raids in Northern California.
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The claim you make is not so broad. It is said by administrative people that one station and its network disclosed confidential pre-police-action information that was not to be broadcast until the action began. As has been mentioned, the same think as allies press not doing advance stories on the Normandy invasion.
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
I can see Los Angeles stations on both radio and TV have their licenses questioned over covering the protests but that won’t stop local stations from airing it on their respective networks apps.
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The riot was, and continues to be, a public event. The claim in San Francisco is that the authorities gave an advance briefing on a planned action and that the station broadcast it ahead of time, risking lives and risking the action.
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Yes it’s the first amendment and human rights argument as mentioned in past cases.
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The First Amendment does not protect the broadcast of things that have been given to the press under the condition of not broadcasting it until the action was begun.
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
But the Administration will play this as “a security issue” here. OnSceneTV, Calmatters, AP and Reuters will get an outright ban from the White House or following Trump anywhere in this country.
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The White House and the oval office have determined capacities. It seems that the actions that have been taken only balance a little the political affiliations or perspectives of the total press corps.
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Now FTV Live is reporting that a news car has been hit and vandalized covering the protests.
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Likely by a group that was carrying a foreign flag in the U.S.
 
DavidEduardo said:
It is said by administrative people that one station and its network disclosed confidential pre-police-action information that was not to be broadcast until the action began.
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I can't find any evidence of a claim by the government or any other credible source that KCBS was given advance information under embargo.

Instead, the story appears to be that KCBS learned of the raids already in progress from a source in the neighborhood and reported what was being observed in the neighborhood. That happens every day in big city radio newsrooms.

If the call had gone to any of the TV newsrooms, those officers and vehicles would have been on live television.
 
michael hagerty said:
I can't find any evidence of a claim by the government or any other credible source that KCBS was given advance information under embargo.

Instead, the story appears to be that KCBS learned of the raids already in progress from a source in the neighborhood and reported what was being observed in the neighborhood. That happens every day in big city radio newsrooms.

If the call had gone to any of the TV newsrooms, those officers and vehicles would have been on live television.
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There is controversy on this claim, which is why I said "it is said by administrative people..."

I can't see any report where the partisan part of the argument has been separated from the actual facts, which is why I qualified my statement.
 
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