Last-day-of-school vibes at ‘Diddy' trial as old media clashes with new
They were battling a bunch of insurgent influencers, TikTokers, podcasters and court-watchers, all intent on capturing the moment Team Combs appeared after the hip-hop star was refused bail while awaiting sentencing on prostitution charges.
In New York, space is always at a premium. No more so than in the press pen outside a celebrity trial when the whole world's establishment media is jostling for prime position against what they see as a bunch of upstarts.
'We are working press,' one independent video journalist, whom this masthead has chosen not to name, yelled at a rubbernecker with a selfie stick. 'You have to move. What's it for, your blog? It's just so rude, unbelievably rude. I don't know how you live with yourself.'
The video journalist, who said she was 80 years old, called the other woman a 'blogging bitch' and dobbed her in to nearby police. The interloper was swiftly removed from the press area.
The older woman with the press pass was white. The younger woman with the selfie stick was black. As is so often the case in the US, racial politics is omnipresent.
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'You're a racist 80-year-old woman who's been harassing everybody over here,' another young black woman yelled as the scene played out. 'Everyone was peaceful until you came up over here.'
Amir Abdulkareem, a 28-year-old fledgling content creator dressed in a crisp, cream-coloured blazer, didn't like what he saw.
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New York: As the paparazzi waited outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse for Sean 'Diddy' Combs' family to emerge, they stood cheek to cheek with a foe more vicious than a scandal-plagued star and more formidable than a celebrity lawyer. They were battling a bunch of insurgent influencers, TikTokers, podcasters and court-watchers, all intent on capturing the moment Team Combs appeared after the hip-hop star was refused bail while awaiting sentencing on prostitution charges. In New York, space is always at a premium. No more so than in the press pen outside a celebrity trial when the whole world's establishment media is jostling for prime position against what they see as a bunch of upstarts. 'We are working press,' one independent video journalist, whom this masthead has chosen not to name, yelled at a rubbernecker with a selfie stick. 'You have to move. What's it for, your blog? It's just so rude, unbelievably rude. I don't know how you live with yourself.' The video journalist, who said she was 80 years old, called the other woman a 'blogging bitch' and dobbed her in to nearby police. The interloper was swiftly removed from the press area. The older woman with the press pass was white. The younger woman with the selfie stick was black. As is so often the case in the US, racial politics is omnipresent. Loading 'You're a racist 80-year-old woman who's been harassing everybody over here,' another young black woman yelled as the scene played out. 'Everyone was peaceful until you came up over here.' Amir Abdulkareem, a 28-year-old fledgling content creator dressed in a crisp, cream-coloured blazer, didn't like what he saw.
