I watched some of his French videos.
There were some problems with them:
he had an unidentified British guide (he's wearing a British press pass and he's referred to as Barney) - knowing who they were would be useful, as his guide in Sweden was one of the country's most high-profile anti-immigrant activists, which was never made clear.
He spoke to people who weren't French. His main interview was with an American student who lives some of the time in Paris but says she lives a "nomadic life" so presumably lives some of the time elsewhere. She was joined by an Italian student. Tim obviously doesn't speak French and didn't seem at any time to have a French-speaking guide or translator with him. Fine, I guess, but to get a picture of a city you'd hope to speak to an actual native.
There was a fair amount of "people told me", "this is where the refugees used to be..." sort of stuff.
Again, after making full transparency a feature of his Occupy coverage - no covered faces allowed - he interviews self-identified "Afghan" refugees without showing their faces. They appear to be dressed in completely western clothes, they're not in any way visibly Afghan, they seem to have French accents, and they seem to be drinking beer out of cans on the street. He interviews one Somali refugee whose English isn't great and selectively subtitles the conversation.
There is a protest: "there is a large black bloc" says Tim - but we don't get that on film. Tear gas is used: he hides in a restaurant and says that people are attacking buses - not filmed.
And, a quick look at the Greek videos. "We've been tear gassed," says Tim - not filmed. Tim coughing and spluttering - no-one else coughing and spluttering... - while claiming
An early partner of Tim's is Luke Rudowski, who you can find here:
Luke Rudkowski - RationalWiki
He's certainly within the Infowars/Prison Planet world, so the idea that Pool was "just some journalist" randomly selected to go to Sweden gets a little more stretched...
Part of Tim's sales pitch is that he's from "the South Side of Chicago" and, thus, has grown up on the Meanest of America's Mean Streets. He's talked about filming gang members, but I can't find any evidence of that (I'm not doing this full time, I've had a decent look though). He's also extremely jumpy about going anywhere near protests, or into "bad neighbourhoods" and a lot of his "reporting" is walking along just after something has "happened" or recalling something that has "happened" in a hotel room, or being told about something "happening". Fair enough. I'd be jumpy too, in fact, I wouldn't be in Ukraine or Egypt while major upheavals are going on, and I believe he's done that, but he's going around with super portable filming equipment and with a reputation as a brave "front line" journalist and he's doing a Peter O'Hanrahahanrahan on a fairly regular basis...
