– Andy Rooney: “I’ve done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I’ve complained about, I can’t complain about my life.”
– Scott Pelley: “The Romans had Cicero. The English had Dickens. America had Andy. He hid a philosopher’s genius behind the honest prose of Everyman. Apparently, God needed a writer.”
– The head of Occupy Portland’s “media” department has a complete meltdown on camera, tells citizen journalists “hope you don’t get hit by a bus,” in reference to the police officer shoved in front of a bus by another Occupy Portland protester.
– Charges dropped against one reporter arrested during Occupy Wall Street protests; the (sort of) infamous Natasha Lennard, who confused “reporting” with “activism,” still faces charges.
Disorderly conduct charges were dropped against WNET’s MetroFocus reporter John Farley, the first journalist to be arrested while covering Occupy Wall Street. Farley was arrested September 24 while interviewing two women who had been pepper-sprayed. His was the only case heard yesterday in which charges were dismissed outright.