{"id":47855,"date":"2016-09-05T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=47855"},"modified":"2016-09-05T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:48:44","slug":"shut-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=47855","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSHUT IT DOWN!\u201d &#8212; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">REUTERS ORDERS CAMERAMAN TO KILL POSITIVE TRUMP FOOTAGE<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"entry-subtitle\">Shock example of media censorship caught on tape<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author\">Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nInfowars.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A shock example of anti-Trump media censorship was caught on tape when Reuters ordered its cameraman to cut live footage of Trump receiving praise from African-American Bishop Wayne T. Jackson in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MM7oPN2g1ig\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The incident occurred as Jackson presented Trump with a shawl, a bible, and offered his prayers as the black audience cheered and clapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Perhaps aware of the devastating impact the optics of this moment would have on the media\u2019s efforts to demonize Trump as a racist bigot, a voice is heard off-camera saying, \u201cHe\u2019s getting a shawl!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The cameraman then says, \u201cI\u2019m shooting this, I don\u2019t care what they say\u2026.I\u2019ll take a demotion for this\u2026. you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cShut it down,\u201d insists the director,\u201d followed by another voice asking, \u201cShut this down?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cYes Michael, do it,\u201d orders the director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">We then hear the word \u201cblackout\u201d and the camera shakes before the live feed is cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cReuters was primary video feed for the event, all other video delivery services were coming from the Reuters feed. When Reuters shut down, all other outlets lost the broadcast,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2016\/09\/03\/hot-mic-reuters-intentionally-cuts-camera-feed-during-positive-bishop-jackson-remarks-to-trump-in-detroit\/\">reports the Conservative Treehouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Right Side Broadcasting responded to the controversy by offering the cameraman a job, promising to pay him much more than Reuters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error\" data-lang=\"en\" data-twitter-extracted-i1473104636221906377=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To the cameraman who told Reuters you&#8217;d take a demotion rather than cut feed at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpInDetroit?src=hash\">#TrumpInDetroit<\/a>, contact us- we will pay you much better\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RSBN TV (@RSBNetwork) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RSBNetwork\/status\/772690930335903745\">September 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">This is by no means the first example of media censorship when it comes to coverage of Trump\u2019s live events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-abc-cuts-live-stream-when-trump-starts-talking-about-hillarys-support-for-isis.html\">we reported<\/a> on how ABC cut the live feed of Trump\u2019s event in Daytona Beach, Florida right as Trump began to talk about Hillary Clinton\u2019s connection to ISIS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Last month, CNN reporter Brianna Keilar began talking about Hillary\u2019s support for anti-crime legislation in the 90\u2019s which contributed to the \u201cmass incarceration\u201d of black people before the video was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWqa2EIBAxY\">immediately cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">As Justin Raimondo revealed in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-raimondo-trump-media-bias-20160802-snap-story.html\">article for the LA Times<\/a>, the mainstream media has openly dispensed with the pretense objectivity during this election cycle in an attempt to sink Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/shut-it-down-reuters-orders-cameraman-to-kill-positive-trump-footage\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/shut-it-down-reuters-orders-cameraman-to-kill-positive-trump-footage\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS ORDERS CAMERAMAN TO KILL POSITIVE TRUMP FOOTAGE Shock example of media censorship caught on tape<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}