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Title    FCC Guards Eject Reporter
Date    Saturday May 20 2017, @07:36PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the shouting-questions-in-a-crowded-hallway dept.
https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/05/20/1221234

butthurt writes:

John M. Donnelly, a senior writer at CQ Roll Call, said he was trying to talk with FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly one-on-one after a news conference when two plainclothes guards pinned him against a wall with the backs of their bodies.

—Washington Post

“Not only did they get in between me and O’Rielly but they put their shoulders together and simultaneously backed me up into the wall and pinned me to the wall for about 10 seconds just as I started to say, “Commissioner O’Rielly, I have a question,” Donnelly said Friday.

Donnelly said he was stopped long enough to allow O’Rielly to walk away.

—Los Angeles Times

Donnelly, who also happens to be chair of the National Press Club Press Freedom team, said he was then forced out of the building after being asked why he had not posed his question during the news conference.

O'Rielly apologized to Donnelly on Twitter, saying he didn't recognize Donnelly in the hallway. "I saw security put themselves between you, me and my staff. I didn't see anyone put a hand on you. I'm sorry this occurred."

—Politico

According to the publication for which the reporter works (archived copy),

Senators, including Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, are warning the Federal Communications Commission about its treatment of reporters after a CQ Roll Call reporter was manhandled Thursday.

“The Federal Communications Commission needs to take a hard look at why this happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again. As The Washington Post pointed out, it’s standard operating procedure for reporters to ask questions of public officials after meetings and news conferences,” the Iowa Republican said. “It happens all day, every day. There’s no good reason to put hands on a reporter who’s doing his or her job.”

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Original Submission

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  16. "HuffPost" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reporter-manhandled-fcc-hearing_us_591fe356e4b094cdba545572
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  18. "Vice Motherboard" - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/trumps-fcc-apologizes-after-reporter-is-manhandled-by-security-guards
  19. "Mic" - https://mic.com/articles/177588/fcc-security-guards-manhandled-a-reporter-john-donnelly-mike-orielly-press-freedom
  20. "Ars Technica" - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/journalist-allegedly-manhandled-by-fcc-guards-for-asking-questions/
  21. "The Meridian Star " - http://www.meridianstar.com/opinion/columns/hassling-journalists-damages-our-watchdog-on-government/article_7c74a994-9e92-5577-b9af-a76195c7c735.html
  22. "Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/05/11/0313218
  23. "FCC to Make Proposals Public, Rescinds Net Neutrality Claims" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/04/1624217
  24. "ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/23/1348238
  25. "Buyer's Remorse on Net Neutrality" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/03/02/2139257
  26. "FTC V. AT&T to be Reheard" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/13/235216
  27. "Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/11/0236237
  28. "John Oliver Leads Net Neutrality Defenders to Crash FCC Website. Again." - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/09/1217253
  29. "Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/07/0159203
  30. "Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/04/06/175249
  31. ""Dig Once" Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/26/2120231
  32. "US Congress is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections [UPDATED]" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/03/10/030202
  33. "Rally Marks Anniversary of Net Neutrality Rule as New FCC Chair Puts It in Crosshairs" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/28/2320249
  34. "FCC Lets "Billion-Dollar" ISPs Hide Fees and Data Caps, Democrat Says" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/25/162200
  35. "With Net Neutrality Pretty Much Dead in the US, Your Privacy is Next" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/01/1841239
  36. "Ajit Pai to Become New Head of the FCC" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/01/21/010209
  37. "FCC's Tom Wheeler Accuses AT&T and Verizon of Violating Possibly Short-Lived Net Neutrality Rules" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/01/14/0621231
  38. "After Setback, FCC Chairman Keeps Pushing Set-Top Box and Privacy Rules" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/22/1737244
  39. "Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/07/1419245
  40. "Verizon to Disconnect Unlimited Data Users Who Use "Extraordinary" Amounts of Data" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/07/22/1421202
  41. "U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules in Full" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/14/1823216
  42. "Netflix Slows Data Transmission for Certain Customers" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/03/29/1320239
  43. "Facebook Moves in to Make the Web a Facebook Monopoly" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/03/18/0217219
  44. "The Dragonslayer: An Interview with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/03/11/1617230
  45. "How a DIY Network Plans to Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/01/26/0349226
  46. "Six Senators Show Stupidity" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/01/23/0338255
  47. "FCC Had "Productive" Net Neutrality Talks With Comcast and T-Mobile" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/01/19/1434237
  48. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20304
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