By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
The Denver Post published a biased and twisted article concerning the Lakota protest of the military helicopters attempting to land at Wounded Knee on Saturday. The Denver Post twisted the facts into a pro-military press release, disguised as a news article, without quoting any of the Lakotas or their reasons for halting the helicopters.
The statements by Debra White Plume, Lakota, and others were easily available on the Internet on Monday, even an armchair journalist at the Denver Post could have found those.
This is one of the real problems with the collapse of the news industry, a reporter can take a small bit of information and twist it into their own crusade, in this case a pro-military article. Whey doesn't the Denver Post have contacts with the Lakota people on Pine Ridge? If the Denver Post is going to publish articles about Lakotas, why don't they know any Lakota people that they can quote, other than politicians? This is armchair journalism at its worst.
This Denver Post article violates all the ethics of journalism:
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_15009550?source=rss
Please read instead the statement of Debra White Plume, Lakota, and others posted here:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
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Censored News is published by censored journalist Brenda Norrell. A journalist for 27 years, Brenda lived on the Navajo Nation for 18 years, writing for Navajo Times, AP, USA Today, Lakota Times and other American Indian publications. After being censored and then terminated by Indian Country Today in 2006, she began the Censored Blog to document the most censored issues. She currently serves as human rights editor for the U.N. OBSERVER & International Report at the Hague and contributor to Sri Lanka Guardian, Narco News and CounterPunch. She was cohost of the 5-month Longest Walk Talk Radio across America, with Earthcycles Producer Govinda Dalton in 2008: www.earthcycles.net/
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