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Major League Baseball has come up with new conditions for their 2008 credential application that media organizations must submit to be able to cover any MLB event.
Major League Baseball is being asked by the National Press Photographers Association to reconsider its decision to restrict access to photographers at MLB events.
The NPPA President, Tony Overman, wrote a letter to MLB Commissioner Allen H. “Bud” Selig, saying the recently released restrictions are overly broad and vague and subject to misinterpretation.
Oh, the poor pitiable paparazzi! Even as the public -- or at least certain sizable segments of it -- clamors for "news" about Hollywood celebrities, no one is willing to defend the shutterbugs who capture those trips to the hottest nightclubs, best rehab joints or even lowly police stations.
In light of the need for a Los Angeles Police Department-led motorcade to escort troubled singer Britney Spears through a crowd of paparazzi to the hospital last week, Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine has introduced a motion for stricter limitations on the paparazzi.
The motion calls for a “minimum ‘personal safety zone' of several feet of clear space between paparazzi and the individuals they are photographing, including their vehicles."
Sherwood District Judge Butch Hale dismissed a citation against reporter and photographer Bill Lawson who was arrested last week after he attempted to capture firefighters battling a chimney fire in Maumelle, Ark.
On Sunday, the first criminal hearing was held in the case of AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been in U.S. custody without charges for nearly 20 months, AP reports.
Hussein's defense attorney, Paul Gardephe, said no formal charges were lodged, and the magistrate judge hearing the case issued an order sealing the proceedings and details of the material presented.
Reuters reports that a Columbia University graduate student filed a lawsuit against New York City and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on Thursday, arguing that his First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested for photographing a subway station.
The Santa Barbara Independentreports that Superior Court Judge Brian Hill found photographer Paul Wellman in contempt of court for failing to turn over photographs subpoenaed in the murder trial of 14-year-old Ricardo Juarez.
As we have said earlier, this seems to be nothing more than a fishing expedition by defense attorney Karen Atkins.
Still daintily dipping its toe into the electronic world, the Supreme Court has again decided that the Earth won't stand still if it allows audio recordings of an oral argument to be released to the public immediately after the hearing, according to a USA Today account. This is the 17th time the court has done so, according to Joan Biskupic. C-SPAN is 8 for 15 in winning such requests before the Roberts court, and live audio and (of course) video have never been made available.
