Journalists detained and threatened with arrest at Orlando airport January 22nd, 2010
By Carlos Miller
Two newspaper journalists were returning from Haiti on a cargo plane with earthquake evacuees when they were detained and threatened with arrest by the president of Orlando Sanford International Airport.
The reporters were from the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal, but the issue has enraged the Orlando Sentinel into publishing a scathing editorial against airport president Larry Dale, whom they regard as a bully on a power trip.
Tina Susman of the Los Angeles Times and Dionne Searcey of the Wall Street Journal were wearing media credentials around their neck Tuesday as they sat on a bus interviewing a Haitian nun who had survived the earthquake.
They were suddenly ordered off the bus and forced into a conference room where they were detained for 30 minutes while being accused of being terrorists.
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By Carlos Miller
Two newspaper journalists were returning from Haiti on a cargo plane with earthquake evacuees when they were detained and threatened with arrest by the president of Orlando Sanford International Airport.
The reporters were from the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal, but the issue has enraged the Orlando Sentinel into publishing a scathing editorial against airport president Larry Dale, whom they regard as a bully on a power trip.
Tina Susman of the Los Angeles Times and Dionne Searcey of the Wall Street Journal were wearing media credentials around their neck Tuesday as they sat on a bus interviewing a Haitian nun who had survived the earthquake.
They were suddenly ordered off the bus and forced into a conference room where they were detained for 30 minutes while being accused of being terrorists.
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