Hm. Via Will Bunch: A couple of activists/volunteers hand out a New York Post parody issue right outside News Corp. headquarters (News Corp., of course, being the parent firm of both the Post and our beloved Fox News).
Cops detained them and confiscated the papers - after they’d succeeded in giving one to Rupert Murdoch himself:
Lockwood says she handed out hundreds of copies over three hours with no trouble.
But that changed sometime after 7:30 a.m., when one of her fellow volunteers succeeded in placing a paper into the hand of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch as he entered the building. Shortly after that, says Lockwood, two police officers who had been observing from a patrol car parked nearby approached her and instructed her to stop what she was doing.
“They were like, ‘These are not the real New York Post. This is a forgery. You could be in big trouble,’” Lockwood recalls. “They said we couldn’t leave until the New York Post officials came to prove that that we had fraudulent papers.” The officers took possession of several bundles of papers — as the photo below, taken by photographer Jason Nicholas, shows — and refused to allow passersby to take any more copies, says Lockwood. After about 20 minutes, she says, the police told the volunteers they could leave.
Meanwhile, Bunch also points to this one - about how Glenn Beck’s hometown is giving him the key to the city - and not letting reporters (beyond one local scribe) in - at the behest of Fox News:
There will be no press credentials for the sold-out “Welcome Home Glenn Beck” event, 7:30 p.m. Saturday at McIntyre Hall — with the exception of one member of the local press who will accompany Mayor Bud Norris.
Norris, who planned the instantly controversial evening, said the directive came from Fox News and syndicated-radio personality Beck and his representatives, and that he wasn’t told why: “No, I didn’t ask for a reason.” Norris said he would be choosing the one reporter allowed but hadn’t decided who it will be.
Emphasis added. Notes Bunch:
it just shows how Fox News tries to have it both ways, bragging about its commitment to journalism even though its institutional and cultural values are basically hostile to journalism and a free press.
