For allegedly lying about the facts.
via Intelligencer: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/cop-who-arrested-times-photog-faces-seven-years.html
New York-based British photographer Giles Clarke uncovers the inhumane conditions of El Salvador’s gang prisons in a series he calls Caged In El Salvador
Freelance photojournalist Robert Stolarik has been covering New York City for The New York Times for over a decade and in the span of a year, he has been harassed by the NYPD multiple times. In 2011, Stolarik was pushed down the stairs of the Winter Garde
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/08/an-unlucky-photographer-catches-a-break/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
Yesterday, the police officer, Michael Ackerman, was indicted on three felony counts and five misdemeanors for falsifying business records and tampering with public records that led to the arrest. He pleaded not guilty and released on bail, and has been suspended without pay by the NYPD pending the outcome of the case.
The recent security and military leaks have received predictable criticism from the government, but a number of journalists have also lashed out at those who are closest to the stories.
It’s not surprising that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who brokered the publishing of Private Manning’s documents, and Glenn Greenwald, the columnist for The Guardian who has led the Snowden revelations, have also come under intense criticism.
What is odd is that many pointing the finger are journalists
The NSA’s state surveillance programs are anti-democratic and unconstitutional. They could be the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen. On Sunday, U.K. intelligence officers he…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/22/opinion-nsas-surveillance-p.html
Our human rights to speak and to communicate, to report and to assemble, are all at stake. “What I do know is it’s not possible to be fully human if you are being surveilled 24/7,” writes Groklaw’s Jones.
Matthew Schrier, a photographer, says he was held for seven months by jihadi fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. After being robbed, tortured and accused of being an American spy, he escaped in July.
For seven months, Matthew Schrier, 35, was a prisoner in Syria of jihadi fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. Held in bases and prisons run by two Islamist rebel groups, he said, he was robbed, beaten and accused of being an American spy by men who then assumed his identity online.
Earlier this summer the California legislature proposed a new “anti-paparazzi” bill, which NPPA opposes. More recently, Actresses Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner testified before the California State Assembly, voicing their support for the bill that carri
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2013/08/16/california-anti-paparazzi-law-would-threaten-first-amendment-rights/
If the bill is ultimately signed in to law, anyone with a camera who tries to get a snapshot of a celebrity’s child could be liable if their conduct “alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes the child” and causes “substantial emotional distress.”
A correspondent for Al Jazeera is arrested while other journalists are scolded for failing to portray the crackdown in the government’s terms: as a war against violent terrorists.
Senior government officials, meanwhile, publicly scolded Western correspondents in two news conferences and a public statement for failing to portray the crackdown in the government’s terms: as a war against violent terrorists
As the recent death toll in Egypt surpasses 500, news of Muslim Brotherhood supporters being slaughtered in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square has been an especially
via ANIMAL: http://animalnewyork.com/2013/this-is-what-it-looks-like-just-before-the-muslim-brotherhood-jumps-you/
All I smell is sweat and spray-paint. All I see are fists. I’m thinking of last year, watching protesters pull a riot cop out of Tahrir Square into an alley and telling Bucky, “That guy is dead.”
Now I’m thinking, “I’m that guy.”
Earlier this week, Xeni reported on the shutdown of Lavabit, the email provider used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ladar Levison, Lavabit’s founder, has given an interview to Forbes ab…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/10/lavabit-founder-has-stopped-us.html
For this round of VICE Loves Magnum we spoke to Dominic Nahr, who – unlike previous interviewees – is still running the gauntlet of selection before becoming a full Magnum member. We discussed Africa’s endless potential for stories, the eeriness of post-tsunami Japan and how a feeling of homelessness can be conducive to taking amazing photos.
The Guardian has the latest of the Snowden/NSA leaks, detailing the semantic loophole exploited by the Agency in order to spy on the communications of Americans and people in the USA, something it …
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/09/nsa-leak-us-can-spy-on-americ.html
The video below, captured by Elbadil TV, shows this fake protest shoot in action. Unfortunately we have no context regarding the “protest” itself — it could be a legitimate propaganda photo-op or simply a group of students showing how easily these things can be faked — but the creepy result speaks for itself:
In the New York Times today, Charlie Savage has another new, important story on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. He reports:
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/08/nsa-on-us-soil-systematicall.html
When Kendrick Brinson first heard of Sun City, a retirement community in Arizona that boasts a squad of senior-citizen cheerleaders, she knew she had to visit. Sun City, the first “planned active retirement community,” had its 50th anniversary on Jan. 1, 2010; Brinson made her first trip in December 2009. Six visits and 3½ years later, Brinson released Sun City: Life After Life, a limited-edition book designed by Deb Pang Davis that she envisions as a sort of “retro brochure” or visual guidebook to the community.
On Tuesday, Bradley Manning was acquitted of “aiding the enemy” for leaking 700,000 classified government documents, including a video of an American airstrike in Baghdad that killed 12 civilians, …
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/02/criminalizing-journalism-mann.html
while many journalists are breathing a sigh of relief about the aiding-the-enemy decision, we shouldn’t forget how hard the government pushed for that particular conviction
Yan Morvan has been documenting gangs in France’s suburbs for 40 years, he’s followed the Hell’s Angels, Skinheads and even serial killer Guy Georges, who took him hostage in 1995 and tortured him for three weeks. This experience forced Morvan to call it
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2285211/french-court-bans-yan-morvans-latest-photobook
A French court has ordered photographer Yan Morvan to withdraw his photobook Gangs Story from bookstores and to pay a €5000 fine after it found that he had breached one of his subjects’ right to control his own image
The editor of French Closer magazine and an unidentified photographer have been charged with violation of French privacy laws for their alleged role in the publication last September of topless pictures of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge (and now
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/07/french-editor-and-photographer-charged-over-topless-kate-middleton-photos.html
Laurence Pieau, was charged earlier this month for her role in the publication of the photos, which show Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, sunbathing topless while on vacation in France last September. Authorities did not announce the charges until yesterday. Pieau has defended her decision to publish the photos in various interviews, saying “I did my job as a journalist,”
Press line #Manning pic.twitter.com/ftzFBHzLsz— Alexa O’Brien (@carwinb) July 25, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js UPDATE: Bradley Manning trial judge increased press security R…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/07/25/journalists-at-bradley-manning.html
Journalists and bloggers covering closing arguments in the military trial of Wikileaks source Bradley Manning are reporting a far more intense security climate at Ft. Meade today, as compared to the past 18 months of pre-trial hearings and court proceedings.
Link: Paul Anger: No answers yet in arrest that never should have happened | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
it shows a man in a dark polo shirt and a Tigers cap approach Mandi from her left. He tells her to, “Back up, back up” and, “Turn it off.” Never identifies himself as a police officer. Puts his hand in front of the camera, grips her arm. Tells her, “I don’t care who you are” when she says she’s a journalist, and reaches for the iPhone
The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the “public interest,” does not breach the constitutional rights of Americ
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/spygate-snooping-standing/
The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the “public interest,” does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law.
A federal appeals court ruled that James Risen, an author and a reporter for The New York Times, must testify against a former government official charged with giving him classified information.
James Risen, an author and a reporter for The New York Times, must testify in the criminal trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency official charged with providing him with classified information.