“An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver – for simply taking pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was residing. Maginnis told his story on Wednesday’s edition of [the radio program] Off The Hook.
Maginnis’s morning commute took him past the Adams Mark Hotel on Court Place. Maginnis, who says he always carried his camera wherever he went, snapped about 30 pictures of the hotel and the surrounding area – which included Denver police, Army rangers, and rooftop snipers. Maginnis, who works in information technology, frequently photographs such subjects as corporate buildings and communications equipment. “
Archive | December, 2002
Consolidation Mambo
Before the Thanksgiving holiday I compiled a few recent articles on media consolidation and the upcoming FCC review of ownership rules. I hoped to comment on them but didn’t have the time. But rather than let them get old and moldy I’ll link you to them in case you missed ’em: From the Nov. 21 […]
Catching Up – Consolidation Talk
On Monday the Times published its take on the media consolidation vs. diversity question — its title gives away its overall slant: “Fewer Media Owners, More Media Choices.”…
Of course, the article is framed as a battle of regulation vs. deregulation — which as I’ve ranted before, is really an innacurate and overly simplistic view of the debate.
However, reading the print edition rather than reading the article on-line made very clear one important fact — the article is on the front page of the business section. Why is this important? Because it demonstrates with utter clarity who the article is aimed at, and why the Times thinks this issue is important….
thanksgiving mediageek break
In case it hasn’t been obvious, I’m away from the mediageek desk on an extended Thanksgiving Vacation through Portland, OR and New Jersey. I’ve been staying away from the usual media news haunts, and will have to catch up when I get back. My one media related venture was to the Independent Publishing Resource Center […]