Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD Catch Heat for Nighttime Raid, 'Media Blackout'

Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD are catching major heat for a “media blackout” that has resulted in the expulsion and arrest of journalists who have been covering the evacuation of Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park.

Reporters from the New York Daily News, the AP, Mother Jones, local site DNAinfo, and other outlets have reported instances of physical confrontation with the police, officers taking press credentials from reporters, and otherwise being barred from covering activity.

Of course, this hasn’t stopped the media from getting the word out, and doing it in a way that makes the Mayor and the police look even worse.

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