Another factor contributing to the challenges for police and media is the question of defining who is a journalist in an age when everyone has a camera in their cellphone. In New York in particular, a battle has taken place over police credentialing of journalists from non-traditional news outlets.
However, journalists who do have the NYPD press pass can face a different set of problems. Muncy, the photographer, said a plainclothes police officer took him aside on Tuesday and threatened to cancel his police-issued press credential for running into the street while taking photos.
“Those press passes, they’re like big targets on your chest, you know—it’s one more thing that can be used against you,” he said. Police will threaten, “get out of here or we take your card.”
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an uptick in cases of demonstrators confronting journalists
And bridges in Ohio too I hear.
#1 Posted by Mike H, CJR on Wed 2 May 2012 at 03:59 PM
Mike H, the difference is that the FBI hasn't accepted responsibility for grooming the black bloc. But conservatives like entrapment. Keeps the little people in their place.
#2 Posted by Jonathan, CJR on Wed 2 May 2012 at 04:57 PM
Yeah Jon, as mentioned here:
"The guy who knows where to get the explosives is always ">from the FBI."
PS. The black bloc are not OWS. They are IDIOTS.
#3 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Wed 2 May 2012 at 05:25 PM