Rhiannon Fionn

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I’d like to offer a little insight into my Creative Loafing coverage of Occupy Charlotte. It probably won’t surprise readers to learn that my conscious decision to cover the movement from the inside out rather than the outside in, as most traditional journalists would do, has raised eyebrows.

My goal was simple: Give the occupiers’ voices the same weight as mainstream journalists give the voices of the entities the occupiers rail against — government and big business organizations that have established platforms and seemingly endless resources with which to share their views.

Why I chose to cover Occupy Charlotte from the inside out — Creative Loafing

Civil rights attorney George Daly piped up during the meeting saying that the basics of the ordinance changes are “already covered by existing law” and that, “You don’t need this ordinance. What is happening here is that you’re letting fear run the agenda. You’ve defined protesters as potential evil. You’re making an enemy out of peaceful people out of fear.”

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Later in the day, the city released its re-re-updated DNC ordinances, which are linked in the article.

Charlotte City Councilman Andy Dulin, a Republican from District 6, posted several comments and photographs on Facebook and Twitter Tuesday to express his thoughts on Occupy Charlotte, at one point comparing the group to the KKK.

Read the story here.

Listen to the follow up interview on SoundCloud above.

Yeah. I wrote (a lot of) this (linked story).

I was too busy to enjoy the fact that the story was on the front page of The Huffington Post most of Friday. Now that I’m seeing all of the posts where people lifted my work to create their own posts — without attribution and often getting the facts twisted in the process, it’s dawning on me what that meant. It’s somethin’.

Add to this: Yesterday, at Occupy Charlotte’s weekly march, a police officer said to me, “So you’re the one creating all of the trouble.”

I laughed.

I’m just telling the story.

The players decide what the story is about.