[Leica] Re: FBI disrupts

[Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)]

I've always said that in a truely free society there can be no such thing as 
an underground press because all press is, by definition, legal and allowed.

actually, as a certified member of the official media, i can tell you that a 
press pass/media credential will, with $1.25 in US currency, get you an 
absolutely free ride on any bus in Utah.

Or just the money will. 

In a supposedly free society you are correct, we are all the "media" and 
should all be treated accordingly. That credentialed media are given better 
treatment is only an accomodation to avoid having to let everyone in -- a 
sort of 
early "pool" system. We let your reporters in so we don't have to let 
everyone 
in, clear?

For the FBI to be raiding any media organization is a very dangerous thing 
and the so-called mainline media should be madder than we hornets about it, 
because the next step is only up the line. That the mainline media is NOT 
upset 
about it only shows how much those media clearly sees themselves as an 
integral 
part of government, no longer part of the public they supposedly represent. 

which is how people like W can get away with the sort of shit they do. Like 
killing babies in Iraq and calling them "terrorists." Nits turn into flies, 
as 
Genl. Custer was fond of saying.

Leica content: I took my M2 and new winder to work today and took pictures 
of 
people reading.

thanks,

charles trentelman
In a message dated 10/12/04 1:12:21 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> Known both for less than rigorous fact-checking, granting "credentials" to
> any yahoo who asks (I was going to say "worthless credentials" -- but it
> brings up a more interesting point -- if the media represent the 
> population,
> why can't the populace be the media?), bad haircuts, mediocre photographs,
> blurring the lines between newsmaking and news reporting, but also for
> covering stories that the main stream media refuses to cover for one reason
> or another, the ultra-left Indymedia clashed with the FBI most recently in
> September during the RNC when an Indymedia web page posted the names of the
> Republican Delegates. In what was likely arm-flexing on the part of the
> feds, the FBI subpoenaed indymedia's ISP in a bizarre move to find out who
> had posted a list of widely known and already publically accessable
> information (lists of the delegates were, in fact, behind handed out by the
> GOP -- which is most likely where where indymedia had gotten it in the 
> first
> place).
>