The Rules on News Coverage Are Clear, but the Police Keep Pushing

Reporting and policing can be a high adrenaline business. But the decade-long trajectory in New York is toward expanded police power.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/nyregion/at-wall-street-protests-clash-of-reporting-and-policing.html?_r=3&emc=eta1&pagewanted=all

The mayor even argued that to let the press watch the police retake Zuccotti Park would be to violate the privacy of protesters. “It wouldn’t be fair,” he said