Michelle Fields and the moment of Truth for the MSM

There have been a lot of sig­nif­i­cant moments con­cern­ing the occupy move­ment nation­wide, but Robert Stacy McCain inter­view with Michelle Fields is poten­tially the turn­ing point in the rela­tion­ship between the Occupy Move­ment and the MSM.

Yes­ter­day the Occupy move­ment charged the doors of the Amer­i­can Dream Sum­mit in Wash­ing­ton DC.

In the mid­dle of the rush was Reporter Michelle Fields of the Daily Caller:

Today Stacy McCain inter­viewed her, it was Amaz­ing. (all empha­sis mine)

Robert Stacy McCain: You won’t be going back?

Michelle Fields, Daily Caller: I won’t be going back to cover it. I actu­ally don’t feel safe going back to those protests, because they sin­gled me out, they sin­gled out the Daily Caller. I just don’t think it’s safe for me to be back around those people.

They actu­ally had a per­son cov­er­ing me all night, for about three hours, with some­one walk­ing around with a cam­era, scream­ing things out to me like, “You’re worse than Fox,” and attack­ing me, attack­ing what I’m wear­ing. So I won’t be returning.

It gets bet­ter (or actu­ally worse):

McCAIN: Wow. Wow. And so they had some­body whose job was appar­ently to mon­i­tor you?

FIELDS: Exactly, yes. So for about three hours, I had some­one fol­low­ing me around, harass­ing me, scream­ing things out to me. And I actu­ally did not feel com­fort­able, because at one point there were a whole group of men sur­round­ing me say­ing, ‘F — Michelle Fields.’ And I went to a police offi­cer and I told him that I felt these peo­ple were harass­ing me. And the police offi­cer said he’d take care of it, but it never ended. These peo­ple were harass­ing me for the entire evening.

In my opin­ion this is the turn­ing point for the MSM. For one week we have seen the media go into a frenzy over anony­mous accusers mak­ing unnamed accu­sa­tions against the GOP fron­trun­ner. Now we have a female reporter directly harassed by the occupy move­ment to the point where she is afraid to report on them.

This is the time where the media decides if they want to occupy respon­si­bil­ity or not. If the media chooses to ignore it, I think the game is over. If Politico chooses not to run it, if Morn­ing Joe decides that it’s not news­wor­thy, then they can for­get the fic­tion of being media, they are sim­ply pro­pa­gan­dists with expen­sive equip­ment wear­ing a nice toupee.

Decide MSM are you reporters or are you stenog­ra­phers? Which will it be?