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Thursday, July 31, 2003
No whining, please. I love
the Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press.
No, really. I mean, I don't know much about what it does, but I'm
glad it's out there theoretically fighting for the First
Amendment.
But this is kind of weird.
According to a
dispatch recently posted on
the organization's website, we are supposed to be up in arms that the
Eagle County Sheriff's Department posted a mug shot of Kobe Bryant
online that is not "suitable for print publication."
Well, here's
the photo. It doesn't look
too bad to me. Some jaggies around the edges, but I've seen
newspapers print a lot worse.
Don't take this as Media Log's
commentary on any of the free-speech/fair-trial arguments
going on right now regarding Bryant and the woman he is charged with
sexually assaulting. This is just one small part of it.
But the Reporters Committee,
frankly, is being ridiculous.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
