Dorner: Police stifle media coverage (tell media to stop tweeting), set fire to cabin [View all]
Some media have reported that police purposely started the cabin fire; others are saying they don't know how the fire started. It was announced on the scanner. Bottom text is the oldest:
Police strangled coverage, eliminating accountability. One office wanted media to quit tweeting as well. Censorship. They have deleted this tweet but screenshots occur:
Dorner manhunt: San Bernardino Sheriff's asks media to stop tweeting, media rebel
http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/02/12/35924/dorner-manhunt-san-bernardino-sheriff-s-asks-media/
There was a side story to Tuesday's Big Bear manhunt and shootout with suspected murderer and fugitive ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. It was a request — believed to be unprecedented in Southern California — for media outlets to stop using Twitter to track the continuing manhunt, for fear of officer safety.
As events played out on local and cable television news, "Big Bear," "SWAT team" and "cabin" made it to the top of Twitter's national trending list. #Dorner was at the top of the trends list in Los Angeles.
That prompted the department to issue its unusual request late Tuesday afternoon: Please stop tweeting.
Why? KPCC placed a call to the department to ask why, but hasn't received a response yet. The tweet, and subsequent tweets thanking news outlets that complied, have been deleted.
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