{"id":988,"date":"2010-05-01T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=988"},"modified":"2010-05-01T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T09:15:12","slug":"photojournalist-arrested-at-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalist Arrested At Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvafoto.com\/2010\/04\/photojournalist-arrested-in-colorado-after-environmental-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">dvaphoto <\/a>you can read the full story of the arrest of photographer Ethan Welty  in Colorado following his coverage of  an environmental protest at the Valmont Power Plant near Boulder on  Tuesday April 27th. He was photographing from outside the plant where 4 environmental activists were arrested for 2nd Degree Criminal trespass.<\/p>\n<p>Police named him as one of the arrested activists, and the press, including AP ran the story without checking the facts, and much of the media are still ignoring Welty&#8217;s attempt to point out to them that he was acting as a journalist and did not take part in the protest, staying outside the plant.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Welty&#8217;s pictures from the event on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Valmont-Power-Plant-Arrests\/G0000JwYNOrFCCBI\" target=\"_blank\">Photoshelter<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weltyphotography.com\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a> is also worth a look for his other work.\u00a0 As Matt Lutton says in his post, &#8220;<em>This is an issue not just of press freedom for an independent  photographer covering an event but of Ethan Welty\u0092s ability to fight  false accusations and bad reporting which have brought his name into  media reports of the event.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On dvaphoto you can read the full story of the arrest of photographer Ethan Welty in Colorado following his coverage of an environmental protest at the Valmont Power Plant near Boulder on Tuesday April 27th. He was photographing from outside the plant where 4 environmental activists were arrested for 2nd Degree Criminal trespass. Police named &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photojournalist Arrested At Protest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}