When the police arrest reporters just doing their job
CHP officers in riot gear took down a pro-Palestinian encampment on the UCLA campus early Thursday morning in Westwood on May 2, 2024. When we were in our early 20s — that period when you’ve graduated from college, and are figuring out what to do — Susan Seager and I were copy messengers in the grand old Los Angeles Times building downtown.
Or, if it was a long take, and said editor or typesetter was far away, we’d glue together a number of the pages, roll them up and place them in pneumatic tubes that whisked them around the place. It was steam punk, it was the movie “Brazil” in real life, and from time to time it was a lot of fun. You got to visit with some amazing people, and sometimes, as the great books editor Art Seidenbaum several times did for me, they’d toss you an assignment and your own byline would be in print.
She directs the Press Freedom Project at UC Irvine, and when working reporters were arrested while doing their job during the recent Gaza war protests at UCLA, she jumped into the fray and demanded their release.
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