Category: Access & Censorship
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UC Davis Paid $175K to Bury Infamous Pepper Spray Incident
UC Davis Paid $175K to Bury Infamous Pepper Spray Incident | PDNPulse The University of California, Davis spent “at least $175,000 to scrub the internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper spraying of students,” The Sacramento Bee has reported. University administrators hired a private reputation via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/uc-davis-pays-175k-to-bury-infamous-pepper-spray-incident.html The Sacramento Bee says…
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Russian Photographer’s Experiment Destroys the Illusion of Privacy
Russian Photographer’s Experiment Destroys the Illusion of Privacy Russian photographer and art student Egor Tsvetkov used his own photos and a facial recognition app to destroy any illusion of privacy we might have with via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/04/13/photog-matches-photos-taken-subway/ He put his photos into an app called FindFace to see if it could identify the people he…
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We Don’t Understand Privacy | PhotoShelter Blog
We Don’t Understand Privacy – PhotoShelter Blog Over 1.5 billion people worldwide use the Facebook app on a monthly basis, and all of those people have opted in to Facebook’s privacy policy by the act of creating an account. Facebook, like many large companies, has expended their fair share of effort t via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters – The New York Times
Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters Because he’s become part of the canon, with auction prices to match, but there are still places — The New York Times is one — where his most sexually charged photographs are considered too transgressive for reproduction. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/design/why-mapplethorpe-still-matters.html?_r=0 A quarter-century later, canonization is complete. In Los Angeles, a doubleheader retrospective,…
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Obama administration sets record for unfulfilled FOIA requests – Poynter
Obama administration sets record for unfulfilled FOIA requests – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/obama-administration-sets-record-for-unfulfilled-foia-requests/402326/ The analysis also comes on the heels of a disclosure from VICE News that the Obama administration…
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Will the First Amendment survive the information age? – Poynter
Will the First Amendment survive the information age? – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/will-the-first-amendment-survive-the-information-age/401868/ The mere definition of free speech is getting clouded: Are video games a kind of speech? (It…
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In letter from prison, photojournalist Shawkan issues plaintive call against oppression – Daily News Egypt
In letter from prison, photojournalist Shawkan issues plaintive call against oppression – Daily News Egypt shawkan – Shawkan has suffered inhumane conditions and a prolonged pre-trial that has seen him in detention for more than 1,000 days via Daily News Egypt: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2016/03/10/letter-prison-photojournalist-shawkan-issues-plaintive-call-oppression/ Shawkan has suffered inhumane conditions and a prolonged pre-trial that has seen him…
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Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism – The Washington Post
Opinion | Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism Another “national security” power evolves into an everyday power. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/10/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism/?postshare=1861457633851446&tid=ss_tw What does this rule change mean for you? In short, domestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained…
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L.A. Times Photographer Arrested at Nancy Reagan Funeral Motorcade
L.A. Times Photographer Arrested at Nancy Reagan Funeral Motorcade A long-time Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested on the side of a road yesterday while transmitting photos he shot of former First Lady Nancy via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/03/10/l-times-photographer-arrested-nancy-reagan-funeral-motorcade/ “[The officers] resented that he would question their motives,” Werksman tells the LA Times. “They swarmed him and…
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A Photographer Assaulted: GOP Inciting Violence
A Photographer Assaulted: GOP Inciting Violence The takeaway from the beating yesterday? Many GOP candidates, their rallies and their photo ops are fostering an atmosphere of violence. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/03/christopher-morris-beating/ Simply, many of the GOP candidates, their rallies and their photo ops are fostering an atmosphere of violence. Combine the commotion of African-American protesters…
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Forget ‘Spotlight’: There’s a war against journalism
Forget ‘Spotlight’: There’s a war against journalism What happened? It starts with the “press pen” — a sad, anti-democratic invention where journalists are corralled at political rallies like so much cattle, and under orders from the campaigns and their security not to leave and talk to rank-and-file voters. No campaign has been more aggressive in…
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Secret Service agent body slams TIME photographer at Trump rally – Poynter
Secret Service agent body slams TIME photographer at Trump rally – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/secret-service-agent-body-slams-time-photographer-at-trump-rally/399121/ “Additionally, statements by Mr. Trump regarding his disdain for the press and for photographers in…
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TIME’s Christopher Morris Slammed To Ground At Trump Rally | NPPA
TIME’s Christopher Morris Slammed To Ground At Trump Rally Photojournalist Christopher Morris, on assignment for TIME magazine covering a Donald Trump rally today in Radford, VA, was involved in an incident with a Secret Service agent as he tried to photograph Black Lives Matter protesters who were being thrown o via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/times-christopher-morris-slammed-ground-trump-rally Kennerly also…
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VIDEO: Time Reporter Grabs Secret Service Agent’s Throat at Trump Rally *UPDATED* – Breitbart
VIDEO: Time Reporter Grabs Secret Service Agent’s Throat at Trump Rally *UPDATED* | Breitbart According to The Independent Journal’s congressional reporter Joe Perticone, the man holding the camera in the video below is a journalist. Perticone | via Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/02/29/video-reporter-grabs-neck-of-secret-service-at-trump-rally/ “These “photographers” are agent provocateurs deliberately sent to cause trouble. ” Measure for Measure. Kick…
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Secret Service agent brutally choke slams a photographer at Trump rally
Secret Service agent choke slams a photographer at Trump rally A photographer working a Donald Trump rally was thrown to the ground by security. via Mashable: http://mashable.com/2016/02/29/trump-photographer-choke-slam/#7KuJTAd8Lmqo The incident, which was captured in numerous videos, begins when the photographer, Christopher Morris, attempts to shoot a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters, who disrupted the Trump…
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Trump’s favorite target: photojournalists – Poynter
Trump’s favorite target: photojournalists – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/donald-trumps-favorite-target-photojournalists/395580/ This is straight out of the Trump campaign playbook: Order photojournalists to pan their cameras to show the crowd, then ridicule…
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Federal Judge Says Photographing Police Not Always Protected by 1st Amendment
Federal Judge Says Photographing Police Not Always Protected by 1st Amendment In a surprise decision in the US court system, a federal judge ruled last Friday that photographing and filming police officers isn’t always protected by via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/02/24/federal-judge-says-photographing-police-not-always-protected-1st-amendment/ Federal District Court Judge Mark Kearney writes that there is no constitutional First Amendment right to…
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New Chinese Rules on Foreign Firms’ Online Content – The New York Times
New Chinese Rules on Foreign Firms’ Online Content New regulations will forbid any foreign company from publishing online content in China without the government’s consent. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/business/media/new-chinese-rules-on-foreign-firms-online-content.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 China is taking another step to restrict what can be posted on the Internet in its country by issuing new rules barring foreign companies or their affiliates from…
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New York Times threatens to sue publisher of an art book critical of the paper’s war coverage / Boing Boing
New York Times threatens to sue publisher of an art book critical of the paper’s war coverage The critically acclaimed War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict examines the ways in which the newspaper happily propagated the Bush Administration… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2016/02/12/new-york-times-threatens-to-su.html “We didn’t expect we’d…
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Facebook the Colonial Empire – The Atlantic
Facebook and the New Colonialism Today’s empires are born on the web, and exert tremendous power in the material world. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/facebook-and-the-new-colonialism/462393/ Today’s empires are born on the web, and exert tremendous power in the material world.