
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, Or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance … There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down Brothers on the instant replay ... The revolution will not be televised …— Gil Scott-Heron, 1970 In fact, the revolution will be televised.And live-streamed, posted, shared and embedded — images from every angle taken by credentialed journalists, bystanders, revolutionaries and the establishment.No significant act by looters, rampagers or "pigs" will go unmemorialized and unanalyzed. The most outrageous footage will go viral, evidence for the court of public opinion if not, eventually, courts of law.The number of cameras on or near the front lines ...
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