Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones
Those hippies can't do anything. Too Lazy. Umm wait a minute...What is that thing overhead?
Culture • January 2012 • Views: 968
It may not sound like much: A video blogger bought a toy helicopter.
But the blogger is 25-year-old Tim Pool — an internationally known journalist who attracts tens of thousands of viewers to his live-stream broadcasts from Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, DC, LA and other cities. (His feeds and archival footage are also aired on mainstream networks such as NBC.) He and his partners hope that the toy chopper — the $300 Parrot AR Drone — will be one step toward a citizen-driven alternative to mainstream news.