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Showing posts with label non-profit media. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Why we need non-profit media

Because without them, this story would never have seen the light of day.

From the article:

"A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of Justice Department civil rights investigations. The probe of Glover's death was the first of those cases to be tried.

"Next week, two officers are scheduled to be tried on charges stemming from the July 2005 beating death of a 48-year-old man. And a trial is scheduled to start in June for five current or former officers charged in deadly bridge shootings and an alleged plot to make the shootings appear justified.

"Police shot and killed two people and wounded four others on the Danziger Bridge less than a week after Katrina. Five other former officers already have pleaded guilty to participating in a cover-up of the shootings. One received eight years in prison and the other three."

It was Propublica that broke this story.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110331/ap_on_re_us/us_katrina_burned_body