{"id":16993,"date":"2011-01-03T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16993"},"modified":"2011-01-03T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T22:31:11","slug":"denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16993","title":{"rendered":"Uptake Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sources at the State Capitol inform me that the Senate Sergeant at Arms office is denying press credentials to all <\/em>partisan news outlets.<\/p>\n

This most notably includes The Uptake, a left-leaning videoblog that, in the past session, had more press credentials than any other media outlet except the Pioneer Press.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The source reminds me that The Uptake – and any other news outlet – will have the same access to press conferences that they’ve always had, and will have the same access to one-time daily credentials they’ve always had.\u00a0 They will, however, not have regular access to the Senate floor during the session.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2: If you recall, the Uptake’s tenure on the Capitol Press Corps has been a rocky one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 3:\u00a0 MNPublius’ <\/em>Jeff Rosenberg tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wow. The MNGOP is throwing organizations it doesn’t like out of the Capitol? That’s horrible. #stribpol<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll hasten to remind Jeff that all <\/em>partisan news outlets have been denied credentials to the floor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

All of them.\u00a0 Not just “organizations it doesn’t like”, although that’s the sort of conclusion most of us expect leftybloggers to leap to in coming days.<\/p>\n

This is as opposed to the last (DFL-controlled) session, when The Uptake was granted credentials, but Dan Ochsner of St. Cloud conservative station KNSI was denied credentials, purely <\/em>(say my sources) because of his ideology (and the fact that he’d run for Senate against Tarryl Clark).<\/p>\n

More momentarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources at the State Capitol inform me that the Senate Sergeant at Arms office is denying press credentials to all partisan news outlets. This most notably includes The Uptake, a left-leaning videoblog that, in the past session, had more press credentials than any other media outlet except the Pioneer Press. UPDATE: The source reminds me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16993"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16996,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16993\/revisions\/16996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}