I assume you joined Dreamwidth to make your comments and then unjoined, hence the strike-through on your name. That's fine though, except you won't get notified about my replies.
Anyway, I'm well aware of the difference between news reports and what actually happened. Which is why I search for live streams of protests and the like to get a feel for what's actually happening, as opposed to believing the few minutes of edited video I'll see on the TV news.
Most probably believe the Hong Kong protesters broke into the HK Legislative Council through its windows, because that's the image and film most news sites show. But they actually got in through a large roller-door, as in big enough to drive a truck through. I was watching a YouTube live feed (along with 20,000+ others) and it showed what was happening both inside and outside the building before the protesters got in. The building was full of police along with a lot of press reporters and photographers. In front of the roller-door were rows of police, some with shields. Mostly you couldn't see what was happening to the door because of the police, (other than hearing bangs and seeing it shaking), but occasionally the camera would get above the police and look down and you could see the door being prized open from below. This went on for a long time and I eventually stopped watching, I only hearing the next day that they'd actually got into the building.
That live feed has been removed from YouTube, though I've no idea by who. Either by YouTube or the news-channel of course, but who ordered it to be removed? I don't know. There may have been legal reasons it needed to be removed, but if not, it was taken down to shape the narrative about the protests.
Did that feed show the protesters breaking in? I don't know, but I assume it did, along with the police not doing much to stop them. Good luck in finding any photos or video from inside the building before the protesters got in though, despite all the press that were there.
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Anyway, I'm well aware of the difference between news reports and what actually happened. Which is why I search for live streams of protests and the like to get a feel for what's actually happening, as opposed to believing the few minutes of edited video I'll see on the TV news.
Most probably believe the Hong Kong protesters broke into the HK Legislative Council through its windows, because that's the image and film most news sites show. But they actually got in through a large roller-door, as in big enough to drive a truck through. I was watching a YouTube live feed (along with 20,000+ others) and it showed what was happening both inside and outside the building before the protesters got in. The building was full of police along with a lot of press reporters and photographers. In front of the roller-door were rows of police, some with shields. Mostly you couldn't see what was happening to the door because of the police, (other than hearing bangs and seeing it shaking), but occasionally the camera would get above the police and look down and you could see the door being prized open from below. This went on for a long time and I eventually stopped watching, I only hearing the next day that they'd actually got into the building.
That live feed has been removed from YouTube, though I've no idea by who. Either by YouTube or the news-channel of course, but who ordered it to be removed? I don't know. There may have been legal reasons it needed to be removed, but if not, it was taken down to shape the narrative about the protests.
Did that feed show the protesters breaking in? I don't know, but I assume it did, along with the police not doing much to stop them. Good luck in finding any photos or video from inside the building before the protesters got in though, despite all the press that were there.