Comments on: NYPD press credentialling process: labyrinthine and defeating, by design http://boingboing.net/2011/11/21/nypd-press-credentialling-proc.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 11:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: EH http://boingboing.net/2011/11/21/nypd-press-credentialling-proc.html#comment-1276673 EH Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=130755#comment-1276673 You should record and post that stuff. You should record and post that stuff.

]]> By: Timothy Krause http://boingboing.net/2011/11/21/nypd-press-credentialling-proc.html#comment-1276615 Timothy Krause Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=130755#comment-1276615 Any way for the blogs that host the work of citizen journalists like myself to deputize us as correspondents-in-the-field? That would be awesomesauceome! "Hands off, officer, I'm with . . . the blogosphere!" I had an NYPD dismiss me as "another guy from the NY Times, here so he can get more photographs and bring more protesters down here" last Tuesday morning, in the aftermath of the destruction of Liberty Square. I sassed back, telling him that an average NY Times reader would just stay home: that I represented the bloggers, and that we do indeed plan on showing up . . . en masse. Jerk. Any way for the blogs that host the work of citizen journalists like myself to deputize us as correspondents-in-the-field? That would be awesomesauceome! “Hands off, officer, I’m with . . . the blogosphere!”

I had an NYPD dismiss me as “another guy from the NY Times, here so he can get more photographs and bring more protesters down here” last Tuesday morning, in the aftermath of the destruction of Liberty Square. I sassed back, telling him that an average NY Times reader would just stay home: that I represented the bloggers, and that we do indeed plan on showing up . . . en masse. Jerk.

]]> By: lavardera http://boingboing.net/2011/11/21/nypd-press-credentialling-proc.html#comment-1276595 lavardera Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=130755#comment-1276595 and so here we have a mechanism by which authority can suppress freedom of the Press.  Who makes these rules? and so here we have a mechanism by which authority can suppress freedom of the Press. 

Who makes these rules?

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2011/11/21/nypd-press-credentialling-proc.html#comment-1276596 EH Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=130755#comment-1276596 I'd say this is a good chink in the armor to put the NYPD on defense about policy, as they should be. I’d say this is a good chink in the armor to put the NYPD on defense about policy, as they should be.

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