As of this week, Oprah Winfrey is in Port-au-Prince with Sean Penn to try and offer aid to the poor souls who were made homeless due to the 2010 earthquake. However, it seems her presence has done more harm than good, at least to one journalist who was caught in the crossfires of her security detail.
It seems Big O’s camp didn’t realize the man was a legit journalist, not a paparazzi. A fellow member of the press actually saw a guard drag the Haitian photographer into a small police station at the camp where Sean and Oprah were visiting. The police interrogated him for over and hour and a half, insisting that he erase his camera memory if he was to be let free. Finally, a senior police inspector arrived ordered the photographer released.
Winfrey’s spokesman Chance Patterson later said the guard didn├óΓé¼Γäót realize the man detained was a journalist.
Well, maybe we all should have looked into that before berating the man for doing his job. It doesn’t sound like he was doing any harm whatever so ever. At least things didn’t get violent.
[Image via AP Images.]
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