All the media coverage i have seen so far (mainly BBC) has had a lot of footage of police hitting people and squashing people, not much of our folk hitting back, smashing anything. It certainly seemed that til the late evening news the BBC was struggling to find a piece of footage to use against us. Anyone watching it, but not hearing the idiot Beeb-bores would have noticed just that, lots of footage of cops hitting unarmed civilians with their truncheons. A friend of mine (not an activist) was watching BBC News 24 most of the day and confirmed this.

Finally on the 10 o clock news in an attempt to make us look bad they showed a protester getting the kiss of life and the asshole reporter said something like the city had paid a high price for the right to protest. As if it was us who had squashed and shoved him and thousands of others in a small space for hours! I hope he sues the police.

I'm pretty surprised at the media coverage, I expected that with all the hype,someone would have provided the press with an opportunity to feed at the hysteria fountain
There was a good interview with a guy from Year Zero magazine about the unpleasantness of being held prisoner for seven or eight hours, lots of stuff about tourists getting caught in the squash and on one news broadcast they said two German tourists had shown the police their airline tickets to leave that night but they wouldn't let them leave the cordon for seven hours!
Even the Evening Standard editorial on April 30 was pretty soft, I couldn't imagine it being written 12 months ago.
If we've got the corporate media to move this far, then we are WINNING...