ABC News personnel tried to provoke incendiary outbreak at Ground Zero mosque protest

• 8/28, "ABC News 'reprimanded' camerman who tried to provoke Ground Zero mosque protesters, but they haven't gone far enough," BigJournalism by A. Lafferty

""At last Sunday’s (8.22) Coalition to Honor Ground Zero’s rally, I watched an ABC News crew stand by, ready to film, while one of their co-workers tried to provoke an angry or violent reaction at a New York rally protesting the Ground Zero mosque."...

ABC News announced they have "reprimanded" the still unnamed audio news man.

• ""ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider tells TVNewser the network has looked into Lafferty’s complaint and agrees that the tech “aggressively” questioned members of the crowd with his personal camera."

• It is important to note, of course, that the media’s lust for scenes of violence or contention only go one way; they have been totally uninterested in actual and substantial violence and far-out anti-American, anti-Semitic rhetoric and signs that were common at leftist protests throughout the presidency of George W. Bush.

ABC News should not just reprimand the contract employee (who actually did the provoking), but fire him"... along with the two other ABC New employees who stood by and watched him do it. The cameraman was standing nearby, poised and ready to record....

Journalists should not make-up news and they should not try to “improve” film footage when the real thing doesn’t have enough action."...