{"id":3165,"date":"2008-08-27T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2008-08-27T06:22:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:22:06","slug":"methinks-thou-dost-protest-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure what to make of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaindependent.com\/5499\/independent-media-artistsjournalists-detained-by-mpd\">this story<\/a>, about the Minneapolis Police and a bunch of &#8220;journalist&#8221; from a &#8220;new media collective&#8221; in New York&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three New York media professionals in town to cover the Republican National Convention were detained by Minneapolis police officers in Northeast Minneapolis early Tuesday morning. Police confiscated their equipment, which the trio calls a deliberate attack on their right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Vlad Teichberg, Olivia Katz and Anita Braithwaite are from the New York-based <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glassbeadcollective.org\/\">Glass Bead Collective<\/a>, a new media arts group. Among the equipment taken: video cameras, still cameras, laptops, notebooks, money and other personal belongings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;because while I am a First Amendment absolutist (like any libertarian-conservative), I also notice that whenever the local lefty &#8220;alternative&#8221; media covers these people, they sow the word &#8220;journalist&#8221; like mines along the Korean border.\u00a0 Almost to the point of caricature.<br \/>\nThey are, of course &#8211; like the <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221; <\/em>and, for that matter, AM1280 and this very blog, flogging agendas.\u00a0 Which is not the &#8220;journalism&#8221; I was taught when I did it for a (small, crummy) living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure what to make of this story, about the Minneapolis Police and a bunch of &#8220;journalist&#8221; from a &#8220;new media collective&#8221; in New York&#8230;: Three New York media professionals in town to cover the Republican National Convention were detained by Minneapolis police officers in Northeast Minneapolis early Tuesday morning. Police confiscated their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","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=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}