On the way home last night I checked my email to find a message, via Flickr, from a Ben Murray. Ben wrote to tell me about a photo he saw in an attack ad against Representative John Murtha that appeared to be mine. I checked the ad on my phone and felt my blood pressure [...]
I’m rather stunned at most of the media coverage of the coverage of the bailout vote that I’ve encountered so far. For example, this morning I’m listening to Steve Inskeep ask questions that appear to mostly be premised on the belief that this vote should have passed. Phrases like “deliver your share of the votes” [...]
I’ve just received the good news that my friend Brian Conley, and most of the other independent media makers and the activists they were documenting, have been released and are heading home.
The so-called “Beijing 6″ were ultimately sentenced, through an extrajudicial proceeding (they did not get to go to court), to 10 days of detainment. [...]