Category: Access & Censorship
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Fearing Drug Cartels, Reporters in Mexico Retreat – NYTimes.com
Fearing Drug Cartels, Reporters in Mexico Retreat Attacks on the media along the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/world/americas/14mexico.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Angry residents who witnessed the carnage began to fill the void, posting raw videos and photos taken with cellphones.
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Canadian PJ gives up fight for photographer rights | Photography is Not a Crime
Maven Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven via Maven: http://carlosmiller.com/2010/03/11/canadian-pj-gives-up-fight-for-photographer-rights/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotographyIsNotACrime+%28Photography+is+Not+a+Crime%29 The other stressor that has led to my decision to leave photojournalism is the attention I’ve received from police
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Is inflight videochat in the US illegal? United Airlines thinks so – Boing Boing
Is inflight videochat in the US illegal? United Airlines thinks so Boing Boing partner John Battelle was on a WiFi-enabled flight last night, and wanted to say bedtime-goodnight to his kids using videochat. Lots of parents tuck their kids into bed over video when … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/11/is-inflight-videocha.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The flight attendant just showed me…
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The Perils of Reporting from Gaza : CJR
The Perils of Reporting from Gaza Gaza journalists hopeful that press freedoms will persist via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_perils_of_reporting_from_g.php On February 14 in the Gaza Strip, Hamas arrested Paul Martin, a British documentary filmmaker, on suspicions that Martin had “committed offenses against Palestinian law… that harms the security of the country.” Martin was about to…
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Zanele Muholi’s Photographs of Lesbian Life Labelled Immoral by South African Minister « Prison Photography
Zanele Muholi’s Photographs of Lesbian Life Labelled Immoral by South African Minister Constitution Hill is a former prison that used to hold political prisoners during apartheid, including both Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. Now the prison, a repurposed art space, faces a new co… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/zanele-muholis-images-of-lesbian-life-labelled-immoral-by-south-african-minister/
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Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks
Link: Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks – Yahoo! News
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Too Much Information? : CJR
Too Much Information? The release of battle footage sparks a controversy in Norway via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/short_takes/too_much_information.php The release of battle footage sparks a controversy in Norway
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Iran closes newspaper and magazine critical of government – washingtonpost.com
Iran closes newspaper and magazine critical of government Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030101470.html?wprss=rss_world The daily newspaper Etemaad, or Trust, and the weekly magazine IranDokht were banned until further notice by the Press Supervisory Board, a media watchdog council led by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The board closed Etemaad for going beyond “the limits of the…
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Apple, There’s Pornography On My iPhone. The App Is Called Safari. You Made It.
Apple, There’s Pornography On My iPhone. The App Is Called Safari. You Made It. – TechCrunch Apple’s hypocrisy with regard to the App Store is something I know well. Several times last year I wrote about Apple allowing apps like “Asian Boobs” and upskirt apps into the App Store while rejecting things such as satirical…
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IPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
IPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past week’s controversy swirling around Apple’s ret via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/ipad-magazines-newspapers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GearFactor+%28Blog+-+Gadget+Lab+%28Gear+Factor%29%29 Publishers should think twice before worshipping…
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Apple Bans Some Apps for Sex-Tinged Content – NYTimes.com
Apple Bans Some Apps for Sex-Tinged Content Hoping for a family-oriented future for its iPad, Apple is looking more closely at what is for sale in its App Store. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/technology/23apps.html?src=twr&pagewanted=all When asked about the Sports Illustrated app, Mr. Schiller said Apple took the source and intent of an app into consideration. “The difference is…
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Video: English cops terrorism-harassing photographer for taking photos of town Christmas decorations Boing Boing
Video: English cops terrorism-harassing photographer for taking photos of town Christmas decorations Bob Patefield, an English amateur photographer, video-recorded an outrageous Terrorism Act stop-and-search in Accrington town centre last December, where he was stopped by a police community suppor… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/22/video-english-cops-t.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Bob Patefield, an English amateur photographer, video-recorded an outrageous Terrorism Act stop-and-search…
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Even in Penitence, Tiger Woods Keeps News Media at Bay – NYTimes.com
Mea Culpa, at Arm’s Length Tiger Woods’s public apologia was the latest installment in his love/hate relationship with the media. But even then he managed to enforce Tiger Rules. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “Doing a story on him was not an enjoyable journalistic experience, to say the least,” Mr. Tannenbaum said by phone. “The thing that it…
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Thoughts of a Bohemian » Of Orphans and unhappy faces
In the same proposition there is also an anti paparazzi part. A rule “that in effect will prohibit photography in public places where anyone who’s in the photograph might be unhappy about being photographed.”. This law, of course, applies only to pro photographers, otherwise tourists would be prevented to take pictures, and that, my friends…
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Photographers, Reporters, Kept Away From Obama Meeting Dalai Lama
News Agencies Boycott Distributing Hand-Out Photo Link: Photographers, Reporters, Kept Away From Obama Meeting Dalai Lama
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Despite Downturn, Some Newsrooms Persist in Costly Fight for Records – NYTimes.com
Despite Budgets, Some Newsrooms Persist in Costly Fight for Records As journalism budgets continue to wither, some companies are taking aggressive action, but other smaller publications have had to let go of those efforts. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/business/media/15hearst.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Indeed, as many companies have cut newsroom budgets they are also scaling back on another of their civic duties:…
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Olympic security guards create imaginary rules regarding photography | Photography is Not a Crime
Maven Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven via Maven: http://carlosmiller.com/2010/02/11/olympic-security-guards-create-imaginary-rules-regarding-photography/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotographyIsNotACrime+%28Photography+is+Not+a+Crime%29 an exchange between a videographer and a security guard in front of Vancouver Olympic Centre where the 2010 Winter Olympics are being held.
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Reuters photographer says reborn after freed by U.S. | Reuters
Reuters photographer says reborn after freed by U.S. The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer in Iraq on Wednesday, almost a ye… via U.S.: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6191PF20100210 The U.S. military has never said exactly why it detained Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed — who worked for Reuters as a freelance TV cameraman and photographer — and locked him away…
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NY photographer wins $30,000 in wrongful arrest case | Photography is Not a Crime
Maven Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven via Maven: http://carlosmiller.com/2010/02/10/ny-photographer-wins-30000-in-wrongful-arrest-case/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotographyIsNotACrime+%28Photography+is+Not+a+Crime%29 But has the legal settlement made a difference in how photographers are treated within the nation’s largest subway system? Not even close.
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US Marines seize camera from Haitian journalist | Photography is Not a Crime
Maven Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven via Maven: http://carlosmiller.com/2010/02/06/us-marines-seize-camera-from-haitian-journalist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotographyIsNotACrime+%28Photography+is+Not+a+Crime%29 In what is looking to be more like a military occupation than a humanitarian relief effort, a group of United States Marines confiscated the camera of a journalist who was photographing a demonstration outside the American embassy in Port-au-Prince this week.