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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 21, 2017, 05:22:31 pm
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Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can
By Benjamin Freed on January 20, 2017
Photograph by Evy Mages.
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As chance would happen, many of the people upset by the presidency of Donald Trump took to the streets of Washington today to express their displeasure with the new administration. Shortly after Trump was sworn in, a large march organized by the DisruptJ20 protest group set out from Union Station to McPherson Square, where it is holding a large rally.
When the march passed by 13th and K streets, Northwest, some in in the demonstration broke away and started throwing newspaper boxes, garbage cans, and other objects in middle of K Street and set them on fire, using Trump T-shirts as kindling. And as any event involving the combination of garbage, fire, and a large crowd—coupled with its convenient location right outside the office of a major news organization—does, the small blaze caught the attention of seemingly every reporter within sprinting distance.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/20/searching-metaphor-reporters-flock-burning-dc-garbage-can/
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Some people just like to watch fires. Covering a fire in a trash can is an easy substitute for serious reporting. And I don't doubt a number of liberal media people were hoping for something larger to catch fire.
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(https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/worldburn-top.jpg?quality=90&w=650)