[LINK] It's Queensland - (sorry to Qlders)

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 17:17 +1000, rene wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:29:56 +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 
> > This is crazy. The original reporting was bad. The Police
> > announcement was bad. The "arrest" was 'bad'. Anything else?
> 
> Ben Grubb's published (about an hour ago) an article on what happened when 
> he was "interviewed", then arrested, then "un-arrested". Same page includes 
> an audio recording of part of the police 'interview' with him - in which it 
> seems apparent that the point at which they decided to arrest him was when 
> he questioned their right to seize/detain his IPad.
> 

I posted last night but seems this list eats messages with digital
sigs...

A crime is a crime, police officers, you, or I, do not get to decide on
when someone's detained for questioning (that's the modern day arrest
now because it allows seizure of evidence, contrary to old days where
arrest meant charged) for an offence.

I don't know this Grubb fellow from a bar of soap, but if he committed
an offence, then as a tax payer, I expect the coppers to do their job.

Wont bother reading his story about it that was linked to, because as a
journo we only get to hear/read what he wants us to hear/read (not a
swipe at Mr Grubb, that's just typical of all journos) it's also why I
have not read a newspaper in 20 odd years, and why I still take digital
media at half face value (because of selective editing to the bits only
that grab attention)

Perhaps its why, at least in Qld many media conferences are becoming
available in full on youtube, so people can actually get the full
picture of what was said and in what context, I'd rather waste the 20
minutes there, then the 30-60 sec cut downs we get on tele or the 10 sec
cut downs on radio, or the selective printed statements in a paper.

my 2 cents worth,
Noel
(who worked Murdoch for nearly 10 years in his "younger days")