The Intercept: 8 Brave Journalists Repeatedly Risked Their Necks to Inform the American Public About a Massive Story Being Covered-Up by the Powers That be: Those 8 Underdogs Are BAD. | Blog Posts
May 13 2021, 8:38 a.m. Written by Robert Mackey. Video by Robert Mackey and Travis Mannon. … Over the past year, as I researched viral clips of contested incidents at protests against racist policing and far-right movements, I found that I was coming across the names of the same handful of videographers again and again. At protests in Minneapolis, Dallas, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Louisville, Philadelphia, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, I discovered that many of the most viral clips were shot by a handful of field reporters for right-wing sites or freelancers w...