Video helps stand up for the first amendment
Posted: September 18, 2007
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A student from the University of Florida was Tasered Monday after his disruptive behavior at a town forum meeting with Democratic Sen. John Kerry. Articles about the incident can be read from The Independent Florida Alligator and The Gainesville Sun.
On The Gainesville Sun’s Web site there is some very disturbing video of the incident. Andrew Meyer, a journalism student, was punished for asking questions that the people around him didn’t want to ask or be asked. I believe that Meyer was indeed being disorderly but did not deserve to be arrested—let alone Tasered.
My opinions aside, video has allowed this story to be told and dispersed in a way and with a speed that was not possible before the internet. Online media trumps television again by giving the readers longer, faster and more in-depth coverage.
Here is more video and coverage of the event:
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