How To Get The Media’s Attention

What’s wrong with this picture (from AP), taken during a protest of the G-20 meeting in London today?

Media Madness

Answer: if you focus on the background, you can make out what video of this event (which I saw on CNN) clearly reveals. This apparently spontaneous outburst of political anger is actually being carefully staged for the benefit of dozens of photographers who surround the protester in a complete semi-circle. Almost makes you nostalgic for the relative authenticity of the 1968 Chicago police riot at the Democratic National Convention (for those of you old enough to remember).

But, hey, what would a G-20 (or any other high-level multi-national economic) meeting be without a broken window or two? The media would be crestfallen…

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