Category: News

  • Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job? | The New Yorker

    Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job?

    Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job?

    According to one tally, three million dollars’ worth of equipment was stolen during the past eighteen months, in forty-five separate incidents. “Somewhere, there’s a mole,” a studio owner said.

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/were-the-film-set-heists-in-atlanta-an-inside-job

    Marc Dobiecki, the C.E.O. of Commander, a film-equipment-rental company, took note. “I could kind of smell it,” he said. “I knew we were on the list, even though we’re just a couple minutes from the local police department.” Security footage from some of the burglaries appeared to show the intruders carrying firearms. Dobiecki, a former Navy corpsman, decided to sleep on site, with a gun, for “a good chunk of last year,” he said. “I invested in body armor, too, and general-protection things, to be ready for a firefight.” He added, “I had all the lights rigged where they couldn’t turn them on. I was in control of the playing field if they came in. I knew the territory.” One night, in mid-August, he wasn’t there, and thieves took a client’s monitor that was worth about five thousand dollars. “I had to pay for that the next day,” he said.

  • San Francisco Chronicle Photographer Robbed at Gunpoint in Oakland | PetaPixel

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    A photographer who works for the San Francisco Chronicle was robbed at gunpoint on Friday while on assignment in West Oakland. The incident follows a fatal shooting of a security guard who was protecting a local news crew, also in Oakland.

  • Controversial Photographer Jock Sturges Admits to Sexual Misconduct | PetaPixel

    https://petapixel.com/2021/11/18/controversial-photographer-jock-sturges-admits-to-sexual-misconduct/
    As reported by the Washington Post, John “Jock” Sturges has been sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty in Franklin Superior Court to a charge of an “unnatural and lascivious act on a child under 16.”
  • The right-wing media’s rallying cry: anti-lockdown edition – Columbia Journalism Review

    https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/lockdown-protests-michigan-ohio-tea-party.php
    ON MONDAY, Joshua A. Bickel, on assignment for the Columbus Dispatch, took a photo that went viral. Bickel was in the Ohio statehouse, where he’d been sent, in the absence of a furloughed colleague, to film a briefing by Mike DeWine, the governor. His photo captured a group of protesters, mid-cry, as they clamored just outside a window. Two of the protesters had “TRUMP” hats on; another was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. They were not respecting social-distancing guidelines. In recent days, the image has circulated online as the visual encapsulation of an angry new cause: right-wing opposition to stay-at-home orders. Liberals shared the photo mockingly, likening the protesters to zombies from the movie Shaun of the Dead. That made Bickel feel uncomfortable. “These people aren’t zombies,” he told Slate. “They’re people, and we don’t know what they’re dealing with.”
  • B&H to Pay $3.22M to Settle Lawsuit Filed by the Dept. of Labor

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    B&H to Pay $3.22M to Settle Lawsuit Filed by the Dept. of Labor

    The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that the giant NYC-based photography retailer B&H has agreed to pay $3.22 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the agency back in February 2016. B&H had faced allegations of discrimination, bias, and harassment.

  • How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico – ProPublica

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    How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico – ProPublica

    The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.

  • Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Sentenced to 18 Years for Murder | PDNPulse

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    Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Sentenced to 18 Years for Murder | PDNPulse

    Jack Shainman Gallery, which has represented Mthethwa since 2006, has recently moved his name off their artists’ roster, but continue to sell some of his prints.

  • 2017 Internet Trends — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

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  • Inside the Underground Anti-Racist Movement That Brings the Fight to White Supremacists | Mother Jones

    Inside the Underground Anti-Racist Movement That Brings the Fight to White Supremacists

    In less than two minutes, the anti-racists had unleashed a flurry of destruction. A mosaic of smashed glass covered the floor. Blood polka-dotted the ceiling. Three people required medical care.

  • Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Found Guilty of Murder | PDNPulse

    Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Found Guilty of Murder

    Bail for Mthethwa, a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology who is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, was revoked while he awaits sentencing.

  • Sting of Myself – The New Yorker

    Sting of Myself

    Amateurish spies like James O’Keefe III attempt to sway the 2016 campaign.

  • How You’re Making Facebook a Money Machine – The New York Times

    How You’re Making Facebook a Money Machine

    What you do when waiting for the bus or avoiding work goes a long way to explaining a tectonic shift in business and media.

  • How The Onion Covers Politics | TIME

    How The Onion Covers Politics

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    The satirical news organization uses a mix of stock photos with its own imagery

  • What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death? – NYTimes.com

    What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death?

    The history of Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory is still being written

  • Photography Team at Olympics Cycling Event Robbed in Rio de Janeiro

  • Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU – Bloomberg Business

    Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU – Bloomberg Business

    Google also started pointing users searching for photographs (of a celebrity, for example) to large high-definition images presented in an easy-to-scroll-through carousel. Photo agencies such as Getty Images, which had its own photo search engine, saw their traffic plummet. Even worse, some Getty clients stopped paying to license pictures because they could easily copy them off Google. “Google became the No. 1 source for the piracy of images,” says John Lapham, general counsel at Seattle-based Getty, which became an official complainant to the EU antitrust case in June.

  • Photojournalist Loses Life’s Work After Burglars Steal Hard Drives

    Photojournalist Loses Life’s Work After Burglars Steal Hard Drives

    They contained an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 photos captured over the course of his 35 year photography career.

  • Steve McCurry’s Assistant Charged In $654,258 Print, Book Theft | NPPA

    Steve McCurry’s Assistant Charged In $654,258 Print, Book Theft

    stolen prints included some of McCurry’s most famous images: Afghan Girl, Vertical Dust Storm, The Blue City, and Bengali Woman and Child. In addition to the prints, Hogan says, she sold stolen books as well through various aliases on multiple Web sites

  • Seymour M. Hersh · The Killing of Osama bin Laden · LRB 21 May 2015

    Seymour M. Hersh · The Killing of Osama bin Laden

    The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said

  • Unsold Google Glass Units To Be Donated To Assholes In Africa | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

    Unsold Google Glass Units To Be Donated To Assholes In Africa

    This gesture will help tens of thousands of poor and needy men, women, and children across the continent who have never had the opportunity to walk around looking like a pompous jackass all day long