{"id":80274,"date":"2021-08-24T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=80274"},"modified":"2021-08-24T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T14:44:50","slug":"this-is-exactly-how-american-patriots-need-to-take-over-the-cnn-msnbc-nyt-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=80274","title":{"rendered":"This is exactly how American Patriots need to take over the CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Demonstrators Occupy London News Headquarters Over Pandemic Coverage<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Simon Veazey<br \/>\nThe Epoch Times<\/p>\n<p>A group of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-demonstrators\">demonstrators<\/a>\u00a0occupied the entrance of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-headquarters\">headquarters<\/a>\u00a0of ITV News and Channel 4 News in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-london\">London<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>claiming that the media are misinforming people about vaccines and the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ITN-building-700x420.jpg?itok=WgYHU4EM\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ITN-building-700x420.jpg?itok=WgYHU4EM\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/ITN-building-700x420.jpg?itok=WgYHU4EM\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0f468e1c-04d1-4b02-8e39-94a75c9f3b05\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_1__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Police were called<\/strong>\u00a0to the ITN production studios in central London on Aug. 23, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetPoliceEvents\/status\/1429789576726519813\">Met Police<\/a>, after a group \u201cunlawfully gained access to the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two hours later the protesters had left, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates suggest there were about 100 people in the group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They appear to be part of a larger group of protesters in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Less than a mile away, other protesters were gathering for about an hour outside the Google building in central London, where police prevented them from entering.<\/p>\n<p>At around 2 p.m. the Met Police said in a statement: \u201cOfficers are responding to a demonstration at a private premises on Gray\u2019s Inn Road, where people have unlawfully gained access to the building. Officers are on scene engaging with building security and removing those who have gained entry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An hour-and-a-half later, the police said that the protesters had left the building.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted to social media show dozens of protesters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fleshdonuts\/status\/1429783585213530121\">walking into the reception<\/a>\u00a0area of the studio buildings. Later footage shows dozens of police officers preventing them further access to the building. Some protesters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fleshdonuts\/status\/1429786998542376961\">appear to attempt<\/a>\u00a0to force their way further inside and are prevented by police.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMedefer\/status\/1429804173344792580\">One video shows pushing<\/a>\u00a0and shoving between police officers and the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The police made no mention of arrests in their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetPoliceEvents\/status\/1429814927519277065\">latest statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITN staff were locked into the building for the duration of the protest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to ITV, an ITN spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cThe abuse of journalists because of their reporting on coronavirus is a worrying development which ITN has been closely monitoring and actively ensuring staff are aware of precautions to avoid coming to any harm. This action resulted in journalists being prevented from being able to go about their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-news-2\">news<\/a>-gathering activities, something that ITN strongly condemns.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Few in the protest carried placards and it did not appear to be organised under a single umbrella organisation or message.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video footage suggests they object to news reporting on vaccine safety and on other aspects of the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A video live-streamed from within the nearby protest that went to Google, entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iUA5FtM4TPU\">Anti Health Passport Rally,<\/a>\u201d suggests\u00a0<strong>a variety of grievances including pandemic restrictions, vaccine passports, and in particular how the media have reported on vaccines and on the pandemic in general.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A common theme among the speakers was that the media have<strong>\u00a0ignored previous large-scale protests against pandemic restrictions.\u00a0<\/strong>Whilst smaller Extinction Rebellion protests get reported, they complained, their protests do not.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulated on Twitter showed protesters yelling abuse at veteran news anchor Jon Snow as he made his way in to the ITN building on Gray\u2019s Inn Road.<\/p>\n<p>Several times in the last few months, groups have peeled away from broader large-scale protests against pandemic measures to protest outside media premises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last month, a group of protesters similarly sought out a broadcast building once headquartered by BBC news, and now used to host other broadcasts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/demonstrators-occupy-london-news-headquarters-over-pandemic-coverage\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/demonstrators-occupy-london-news-headquarters-over-pandemic-coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators Occupy London News Headquarters Over Pandemic Coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}