Category: Access & Censorship
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Yesterday’s AP Photo of Afghan Suicide Bombing: Revisiting the Censorship of Images of Wounded American Soldiers
AP Photo of Afghan Suicide Bombing: Revisiting the Censorship of Images of Wounded American Soldiers – Reading The Pictures If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it’s that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today fail to understand why such scenes…
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Going undercover with the Panasonic GH2 – By Sky News shooter Andy Portch
Link: DSLR News Shooter No lights, no tripod and no mucking about. That’s how we continued our coverage of the growing Tibetan unrest in Western China.
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Police Intimidation Watch: Photog Agrees to Community Service for Trespassing on a Public Street
Police Intimidation Watch: Photog Agrees to Community Service for Trespassing on a Public Street | PDNPulse A freelance photographer arrested last fall while covering police action at the Occupy protest in Richmond, Virginia has reportedly agreed to complete 50 hours of community service in exchange for having prosecutors drop trespassing charges against him. P via…
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Boston paying $170k for videography arrest
Boston paying $170k for videography arrest – NPPA Advocacy Committee The Boston Globe is reporting that the City of Boston has paid $170,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed against them after they arrested a man for photographing police activity on the Boston Commons. The underlying case was the subject of an earlie via…
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Las Vegas police agree to pay $100,000 to beaten videographer
Link: ReviewJournal.com The payment would settle the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Mitchell Crooks, whose video of the confrontation with officer Derek Colling became an Internet hit.
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A Sign of Restive Times: Policeman Punches Photojournalist
A Sign of Restive Times: Policeman Punches Photojournalist | PDNPulse Although this image of a Greek police officer punching a news photographer at an Athens street protest was shot last fall, it didn’t come to our attention until yesterday. But the passage of several months makes it no less dramatic or shocking. And it rem…
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Israel Bans Use of Underweight Models
Israel Bans Use of Underweight Models | PDNPulse Israel has passed a law that bans the use of “underweight” models in advertising, and mandates that ads that are retouched to make models appear thinner must include a disclaimer. According to reports, a fashion photographer and model agent named Adi Bark via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/israel-bans-use-of-underweight-models.html “Force actual…
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Iranian photographer Tahmineh Monzavi arrested
Link: British Journal of Photography Tahmineh Monzavi, an Iranian photographer and director, has been arrested in her native country
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Android lets apps secretly access and transmit your photos
Android lets apps secretly access and transmit your photos Writing in the NYT’s BITS section, Brian X. Chen and Nick Bilton describe a disturbing design-flaw in Android: apps can access and copy your private photos, without you ever having to grant t… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/02/android-lets-apps-secretly-acc.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 But increasingly these things are networked — we carry…
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Proposed US law bans protesting near anyone who rates a Secret Service detail
Proposed US law bans protesting near anyone who rates a Secret Service detail HR437, “the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011” makes it illegal to protest in the vicinity of anyone who rates a Secret Service detail (even if you aren&#… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/02/proposed-us-law-bans-protestin.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 thus sparing politicians and VIPs the ugly…
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Photographer William Daniels, Edith Bouvier Safe in Lebanon
Photographer William Daniels, Edith Bouvier Safe in Lebanon | PDNPulse Agence France Presse reports that French photographer William Daniels has managed to escape from Homs, Syria to safety in Lebanon with French reporter Edith Bouvier. The two journalists had been trapped in the besieged city for more than a week. Bouvier’s via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/photographer-william-daniels-edith-bouvier-safe-in-lebanon.html
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Groups assail bill making it a crime to film farm animals
Groups assail bill making it a crime to film farm animals The Utah Humane Society and other advocacy groups oppose a bill that would make it a crime to v via The Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53577671-79/bill-animal-public-lands.html.csp The Utah Humane Society and other advocacy groups oppose a bill that would make it a crime to videotape…
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13 Syrians die attempting to rescue foreign journalists in Homs
Link: The Washington Post the ferocity of the attack scattered the rest of the group, Avaaz said. The three other journalists were forced to turn back and remain trapped in Bab Amr. Ten more activists escorting them were killed in the confused retreat into the neighborhood, which has come under sustained bombardment for the past…
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Injured Photographer Paul Conroy Smuggled Out of Syria
Injured Photographer Paul Conroy Smuggled Out of Syria | PDNPulse British photographer Paul Conroy, who was injured last week in an attack on a makeshift media center in Homs, Syria that killed two other journalists, has been smuggled to safety in Lebanon, the Associated Press reports. Syrian activists smuggled Conroy o via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/injured-photographer-paul-conroy-smuggled-out-of-syria.html Syrian…
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White House Uses Espionage Act to Pursue Leak Cases
Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth After promising to enhance whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers, the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act as a kind of ad hoc Official Secrets Act. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/business/media/white-house-uses-espionage-act-to-pursue-leak-cases-media-equation.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance “whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,”…
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France, UK appeal for safe passage for trapped journalists
Link: British Journal of Photography The governments of France and the UK are urging Syria to offer safe passage to the city of Homs, as three journalists – including photographers William Daniels and Paul Conroy – remain trapped following the attack that killed Rémi Ochlik and Marie Colvin
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Did Syria’s army use sat-phone surveillance to hunt down and kill journalists?
Did Syria’s army use sat-phone surveillance to hunt down and kill journalists? Jillian York and Trevor Timm, writing for the EFF, explore the possibility that the Syrian government used satellite phone surveillance to pinpoint the locations of journalist Marie Colvin of the S… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/02/23/did-syrias-army-use-sat-phon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The Telegraph quoted Jean-Pierre Perrin, a journalist for…
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Were Journalists in Homs Targeted for Bombing?
Were Journalists in Homs Targeted for Bombing? | PDNPulse Radio communications between Syrian army officers have shown that the army was ordered to bomb the make-shift press center in the besieged city of Homs where photographer Remi Ochlik and reporter Marie Colvin were working, The Telegraph newspaper reports. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/were-journalists-in-homs-targeted-for-bombing.html Radio communications between Syrian…
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NPPA Protests New Tactic in Dealing with Photographers Covering the Occupy Protests
NPPA Protests New Tactic in Dealing with Photographers Covering the Occupy Protests – NPPA Advocacy Committee Today, the NPPA sent another letter of protest to U.S. Parks Police Chief Teresa Chambers asking her to investigate allegations that a photographer was arrested and detained for 48 hours without being formally charged. According to press reports officers via…
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Ninth Circuit: Photojournalist’s Access is a “Fundamental Constitutional Right”
Ninth Circuit: Photojournalist’s Access is a “Fundamental Constitutional Right” – NPPA Advocacy Committee In another victory for photographers, the NPPA is applauding a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which held that restrictions on a photojournalists’ access to a horse roundup by a federal agency may have violated her First…