Democracy Now reports that host Amy Goodman and program producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota on Monday 9/1. The link to the news release and video of Amy’s arrest are here.
DN reported late Monday night that all three had been released from custody.
Democracy Now goes on to say:
Democracy Now! stands by Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar and condemns this action by Twin Cities law enforcement as a clear violation of the freedom of the press and the First Amendment rights of these journalists.
There was very little mainstream coverage of RNC protests today. We inserted a story from KUSP volunteer reporter Christopher Krohn into All Things Considered today — that story was recorded early in the afternoon in downtown St. Paul. Chris’ story indicated the situation was potentially serious, as the later arrests of DN journalists certainly proved.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Any way to uplink a copy of Chris Krohn’s report on the website? We missed it.
Thanks!
October 1st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hi Terry and KUSP Blogologists,
I’m feeling disheartened that “new” media as in KUSP’s blog, etc. appear to be heading down the memory hole. Apparently there is-has been no dialogue re KUSP programming for the month of September. Is that correct?
Oops, one comment request on Sept 4th with no Reply… hmmm.
On a similar note, I wrote a few e-mails to the KUSP Blog but got no direct reply (I guess I/we have to go and search the blog to see if there was any response? That seems somewhat archaic.
If you have any reply, could you e-mail me/us?
Thank you
Grant
October 6th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Grant is correct in observing the minimal amount of comments contributed to this blog in recent weeks, and I don’t really know what I can add to that observation… I did reply to him via e-mail as he requested, in addition to posting this comment.