tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249464422012-02-15T18:29:10.618-07:00M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.comBlogger3521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-4983185897762127902012-02-13T10:34:00.005-07:002012-02-13T10:49:50.378-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AtfMxFwaiTs/TzlMrdNQn1I/AAAAAAAAI6k/5F19utzx6eY/s1600/Alfred-Walck_0689wa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AtfMxFwaiTs/TzlMrdNQn1I/AAAAAAAAI6k/5F19utzx6eY/s400/Alfred-Walck_0689wa.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Albuquerque Police Department</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Officer – Retired</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 30, 1973 – November 14, 2011</span></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24946442-498318589776212790?l=mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-88872676421133404962012-02-06T05:07:00.010-07:002012-02-13T13:48:30.857-07:00<div face="Times New Roman" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico Foundation for Open Government</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">October 8, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRpFw4UjGI/AAAAAAAAHPo/jZ4zhjnuvZk/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0470w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572194186705538146" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRpFw4UjGI/AAAAAAAAHPo/jZ4zhjnuvZk/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0470w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 219px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The </span><a href="http://nmfog.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico Foundation for Open Government</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, a mix of media administrators, lawyers, and citizens held a board meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kmA7wsZOIZ4/TVRpeSIjoTI/AAAAAAAAHPw/IiGrAo-Z2vY/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0488w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572194607948865842" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kmA7wsZOIZ4/TVRpeSIjoTI/AAAAAAAAHPw/IiGrAo-Z2vY/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0488w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 222px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 26-member NMFOG board of directors is self-appointed; the dues paying membership, called supporters, have no role in either selecting their leadership or the direction they take.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, supporters may have an item placed on the board’s agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kqIbJNu078c/TVRqGgi_oyI/AAAAAAAAHP4/e5pmFCPZU0w/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0490w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572195299012616994" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kqIbJNu078c/TVRqGgi_oyI/AAAAAAAAHP4/e5pmFCPZU0w/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0490w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg was an APS shop teacher and Character Counts instructor to adult administrators, teachers, staff, and thousands of students; he was fired for enforcing the standards of "Character Counts." He was rehired after an arbitrator found his firing improper and four months later entered into a settlement that forced him into retirement.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg writes his blog, in part as a cathartic release He joined FOG to object to FOG Board member Martin Esquivel being elected president. Esquivel is also president of APS' Board of Education and was the 2006 recipient of the Dixon award for law. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Esquivel was not present Friday, except as the questioner of the award recipients on their prerecorded video introductions, had told Janice Arnold-Jones when she was interviewed that he was the new president of FOG.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7jOwgP4YjWk/TVRqbmUdSpI/AAAAAAAAHQA/WzgBhOX5Uu0/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0475w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572195661339511442" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7jOwgP4YjWk/TVRqbmUdSpI/AAAAAAAAHQA/WzgBhOX5Uu0/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board_0475w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg is single-minded about the importance of character and ethics in the education process and fights against the hypocrisy shown by adults who have abdicated their role-modeling obligation by doing what they want without any regard to be ethical, or follow the rule of law, or provide for due process.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Members of the board seemed interested in MacQuiggs’ presentation with several asking him specific questions. This group appeared to grasp the positions he put forward better than any other group to which I have seen him speak. However, to some his smeared reputation preceded him.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyUY1HUt4go/TVRq02oeYkI/AAAAAAAAHQI/owR6gEdDiZA/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board-Welsh_1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572196095215166018" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyUY1HUt4go/TVRq02oeYkI/AAAAAAAAHQI/owR6gEdDiZA/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board-Welsh_1w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 313px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The FOG board listened to reports from Executive Director Sarah Welsh on the status of recent cases, legislative efforts, and intended future actions. Individual members reported on their actions in the name of FOG.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRrS6ekooI/AAAAAAAAHQQ/dA60VXUq3XU/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board-Marshal_0493w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572196611643449986" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRrS6ekooI/AAAAAAAAHQQ/dA60VXUq3XU/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board-Marshal_0493w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 222px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Victor Marshall attorney for former state investment officer at the Educational Retirement Board, Frank Foy, gave report on the progress of the fraud lawsuits Foy brought involving the State Investment Council and the ERA.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The board had a discussion on suggested amending their by-laws, which hadn’t been updated in years. The conversation seemed to exclude the broader membership; so I asked if I might ask some questions. The president allowed it. My question was who selected the FOG board, was it through elections or self-appointment. When I got the answer, I stepped back.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRrpbTAVwI/AAAAAAAAHQY/2hFTDtBvPAs/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board-Rogers_1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572196998410426114" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRrpbTAVwI/AAAAAAAAHQY/2hFTDtBvPAs/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Board-Rogers_1w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOG board member and Treasurer Pat Rogers, right, who is also National Republican Committeeman, reported on a possible piece of legislation to be put forward at the next session. The proposal is about acquiring requests for public records in electronic form. Rogers has a clause that would allow the governmental entity to charge a fee for transferring the electronic information to another form of electronic medium that the requester asked for.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The existing Inspection of Public Records Act Chapter 14, Article 2 NMSA 1978.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">§ 14-2-8. Procedure for requesting records<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. Nothing in the Inspection of Public Records Act shall be construed to require a public body to create a public record.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">§ 14-2-9. Procedure for inspection<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. Requested public records containing information that is exempt and nonexempt from disclosure shall be separated by the custodian prior to inspection, and the nonexempt information shall be made available for inspection. If necessary to preserve the integrity of computer data or the confidentiality of exempt information contained in a database, a partial printout of data containing public records or information may be furnished in lieu of an entire database. (Emphasis added).</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(4) shall not charge a fee for the cost of determining whether any public record is subject to disclosure; and….</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note:</span></span><br /><blockquote><div face="Times New Roman" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sen. Stephen H. Fischmann introduced </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0052.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Senate Bill 52</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Providing for Delivery of Copies of Public Records in Electronic Format.</span></span></div></blockquote><div face="Times New Roman" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 4px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That evening, before the awards banquet, I spoke with Rogers. He thanked me for my speaking about the lack of input at FOG from its dues paying members.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told him I thought organizations like FOG should include their dues-paying members.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A man can only take so much democracy," Rogers said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can understand why the FOG board is a self-appointing entity; it is done under the guise of efficiency in making decisions, which are of legal analysis and most often pertain to media access to records and open meetings. The economics of the foundation’s operations are dependent on grants and supporters. The lawyers who do the legal work do so pro bono (free). So, the dues paying membership is represented by three non-legal or media management members. There is only one street level media persona, who is also a pecan farmer. There seems to be missing a truly street level government beat reporter who is dealing day-to-day with the actual problems of acquiring public records and access to public meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any thought I might have harbored about FOG sunk further than the low regard I already held for the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If placed into a metaphoric example, of the distance a suicidal person flinging them self off a skyscraper to the sidewalk; the equivalent drop for FOG would be from the threshold of the front door; only a couple of inches.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It brings out the Marxist in me; I’ve used the joke before. Not Karl Marx, but Groucho, “I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div face="Times New Roman" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 4px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico Foundation for Open Government’s 2010 Dixon Award Winners were presented at FOG’s annual banquet ceremony June 12.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zb1oiqdo_FQ/TVRtsW0x8KI/AAAAAAAAHQg/ZMvPcXES1hc/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Award-Dinner_1418w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572199247772774562" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zb1oiqdo_FQ/TVRtsW0x8KI/AAAAAAAAHQg/ZMvPcXES1hc/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Award-Dinner_1418w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 301px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">State Senator Tim Eichenberg, (D) Bernailillo County speaking with Green Party Candidate for NM Congressional District 1, Alan Woodruff prior to the social hour. Woodruff was not </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/09/10/tenth-circuit-says-new-mexico-need-not-put-two-congressional-candidates-on-the-ballot-even-though-some-of-the-laws-were-earlier-held-unconstitutional/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">permitted</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> on the ballot.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRuU0a35UI/AAAAAAAAHQo/nx-3fOjxMv8/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Awards-Kip-Purcell_1433w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572199942911944002" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVRuU0a35UI/AAAAAAAAHQo/nx-3fOjxMv8/s320/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Awards-Kip-Purcell_1433w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 184px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 184px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Rodey firm was the presenter of Friday night's event and had a large banner over the stage. One of Rodey's lawyers, Kip Purcell, the reelected president of the board, emceed the evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Las Cruces based blogger </span><a href="http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/about/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heath Haussamen</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, who is a FOG supporter </span><a href="http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/01/nmpolitics-net-nominates-arnold-jones-for-open-government-award/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nominated</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones the William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom </span><a href="http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/04/arnold-jones-wins-open-government-award/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Award</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for the Government category.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AI3HrIl_Gvw/TVRxkWxC9eI/AAAAAAAAHQw/bQ7Y7DqnolU/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Welsh-Cole-Awards_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572203508364670434" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AI3HrIl_Gvw/TVRxkWxC9eI/AAAAAAAAHQw/bQ7Y7DqnolU/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Welsh-Cole-Awards_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOG Vice President Terri Cole, right, is President and CEO, of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce nominated Arnold-Jones before the board. Cole, seen here with FOG’s Executive Director Welsh, made the presentation for the government award to Arnold-Jones.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVR4fnD-JZI/AAAAAAAAHRI/cXJAynOiORY/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Award-Dinner_0495w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572211123421062546" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVR4fnD-JZI/AAAAAAAAHRI/cXJAynOiORY/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Award-Dinner_0495w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 232px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arnold-Jones, interviewed by KOAT TV before the dinner, was cited for webcasting the two committees upon which she sits during the 2009 legislative session, risking violating House rules. Her efforts opened up audio and video webcasting during the 2010 session.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SIDEBAR:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Arnold-Jones' Saturday morning group MacQuigg advocated taking pitchforks and torches to the 2008 legislative special session. I modified his suggestion to a newer technology, instead of torches and pitchforks, bring video cameras and post significant legislative actions on YouTube.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVR4qYPXVKI/AAAAAAAAHRQ/tHfOFHf5fos/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Award_0521w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572211308420879522" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVR4qYPXVKI/AAAAAAAAHRQ/tHfOFHf5fos/s200/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Award_0521w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 154px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In accepting the award, Arnold-Jones spoke about the history of the transparency movement through video coverage of the legislature, starting some three years earlier by Sen. Mark Boitano's efforts to successfully push through legislation for webcasting the legislature.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Boitano's efforts were totally undermined when, after the cameras were mounted in the Senate chambers, the Senate Committee on Committees ordered their removal.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That act awakened the press, public and Arnold-Jones in demanding more transparency.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arnold-Jones listed a number of people from her Saturday morning group who had helped in getting her webcam up and running successfully.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She named five people, several of whom were in the room, who were supporting her, “Ched MacQuigg, Mark Bralley, Charles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><b>&nbsp;</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christman, Charles Tipton and Howard De La Cruz-Bancroft; and they were just the Techno-Weenies."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Techno-Weenies?" what a great honor it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“There are a whole group of people who believe that government is of the people, by the people, and for the people,” She said. “You got a problem with that? That’s what they believe; that’s what I believe. That is what this award is about.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The webcam is about you the people; and as an elected, and though I am leaving the legislature, I will tell you that every piece of legislation is better when you raise your hand,” Arnold-Jones said. “When you ask questions, and when you participate, of the people, by the people, and for the people; we cannot do it without you,”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_CxLRJOv8eM/TVRzFLiI9RI/AAAAAAAAHRA/s1MTx9fokUU/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Awards-Quad_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572205171796669714" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_CxLRJOv8eM/TVRzFLiI9RI/AAAAAAAAHRA/s1MTx9fokUU/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-Awards-Quad_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 399px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other four recipients, clockwise from top left, were for: Business, Norm Becker, Education, APS Superintendent Winston Brooks, Law, Hal Simmons, private attorney, and Journalism, </span><a href="http://www.riograndesun.com/our_newspaper/contact_us/#Personnel"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert B. Trapp</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.riograndesun.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rio Grande SUN</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Managing Editor.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591313170934803282" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hU_H7ESVs58/TZhVtHWIK1I/AAAAAAAAIJ0/m74VyJuUvwI/s400/Leg-Restructing-Committee-Brooks-4w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 368px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brooks, above, was not present to accept his award, because he was on a long planned cruise with his wife celebrating their 30th anniversary. APS’ Director of </span><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/legislative-affairs"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government Affairs</span></span></a><span style="color: #9dc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #9dc5e8;"><a href="http://www.aps.edu/about-us/leadership-team/leadership-team-members/joseph-escobedo"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joseph Escobedo</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> accepted the award on behalf of Brooks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVSC9nBSEBI/AAAAAAAAHRY/K-Ax6NpFohk/s1600/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-AJ-Kent-Walz_1466w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572222633922138130" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVSC9nBSEBI/AAAAAAAAHRY/K-Ax6NpFohk/s400/10%253A10%253A08-FOG-AJ-Kent-Walz_1466w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 344px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Journal Editor and FOG Secretary Kent Walz had nominated Brooks because he had made getting public records easier for Journal's education reporters. Walz disregarded the fact that Brooks' actions only applied to the Journal and the APS Communications office still makes it very difficult for others to retrieve information.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arnold-Jones was relieved that Brooks was not in attendance because she wasn't sure she was willing to be honored on the same stage with Brooks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bill Dixon was truly appreciated by FOG and others in the legal and media communities for his long time in service and his dedicated work.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOG is protecting bottom line interests of mainline media outlets and their lawyers, many of whom are recipients of the Dixon Awards' legal category. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ultimately, FOG is a backslapping “Good Ol’ Boy” network, known for giving awards to their own board members for their efforts in advancing their vested self-interests. FOG believes that by making such awards for the vested interest, they are also protecting the society at large.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, many at the lower levels of producing material for the commercial media and independent journalists don’t see FOG’s efforts as assisting the specific goals of informing society of important issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The </span><a href="http://www.nmfog.org/content.asp?CustComKey=304880&amp;CategoryKey=304881&amp;pn=Page&amp;DomName=nmfog.org"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Awards</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have been given since 2002, with the exception of 2007. There are five awarded categories: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Business, Law, Media/Journalism, Education, and Government.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Not all </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">categories have been awarded every year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">None of the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">recipients in the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Business, Education, or Government categories</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> were </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on FOG’s board, membership or </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">benefactors list when they received their awards, while all the Media/Journalism and Law </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">recipients were associated with FOG, in person or through their employers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former recipients have been:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2002<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeff Sterba – Business<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bgnL1R0i6_I/TX5RIaHh0zI/AAAAAAAAH4Y/FwWvd62Kc00/s1600/11%253A01%253A26-SPJ-Media-Law-P1262178w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583989792877695794" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bgnL1R0i6_I/TX5RIaHh0zI/AAAAAAAAH4Y/FwWvd62Kc00/s400/11%253A01%253A26-SPJ-Media-Law-P1262178w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="http://www.dineslaw.com/pages/jim-dines.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jim Dines</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.dineslaw.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Law</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daniel H. Lopez</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Education</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591301920430684722" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EJgfNkCwiu8/TZhLeP86-jI/AAAAAAAAIJk/TM1gSHveChE/s400/Chavez_0225w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 230px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ch%C3%A1vez"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Martin Chávez</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Government</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2003<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Stanford</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Business</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590343455489694770" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YoFIVVJXlWg/TZTjwPzknDI/AAAAAAAAIF8/PtVfuXJfbEk/s400/FOG-Peifer-2w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 259px;" /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.peiferlaw.com/CRP.HTM"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Charles Peifer</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – </span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.peiferlaw.com/OUR_FIRM.HTM"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Law</span></a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://www.riograndesun.com/our_newspaper/contact_us/#Personnel"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert E. Trapp</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.riograndesun.com/front/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Media</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ted Hobbs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Government <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2004</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591297838810995762" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-87s_cKwL-Ag/TZhHwqu9HDI/AAAAAAAAIJM/zaOigNS9ruo/s400/10%253A02%253A01-Senate-Koch_1392w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 262px;" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2010/02/koch-confirmed-or-gadfly-on-wall.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jamie Koch</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Business</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589608275245366546" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eUV3fD3UnfI/TZJHHH-VfRI/AAAAAAAAIDY/exf-ThdOe6Q/s400/Rogers_3828w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 253px;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><a href="http://www.modrall.com/0910071189451588.prs"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patrick Rogers</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Law</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. Sean McCleneghan</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Education <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Max Coll</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Government <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2005 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jim Hinton</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Business<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daniel Yohalem</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Law<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://www.nmfog.org/content.asp?CustComKey=304892&amp;CategoryKey=452425&amp;pn=Page&amp;DomName=nmfog.org"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathi Bearden</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hobbsnews.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Journalism</span></a></span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591300635898977842" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ji93foEOzw4/TZhKTessnjI/AAAAAAAAIJc/i0tOz1cvTCA/s400/10%253A01%253A21-Rep-Cervantes_4252w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 265px;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hobbsnews.com/"></a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HCERV"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joseph Cervantes</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Government</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2006 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam Spencer</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Business</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592455741125821554" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-KU6vetjrA/TZxk3c_mBHI/AAAAAAAAILk/K8_x2UWQu6w/s400/11%253A01%253A18-APS-Board-District-4-forum-8w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 313px;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><a href="http://www.narvaezlawfirm.com/Martin.htm"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin Esquivel</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Law</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627817810000186226" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YQWqoh_ILxc/ThoGexGti3I/AAAAAAAAIoY/tqJz7J3ydRs/s400/La-Cueva-HS-J-Teacher-Pat-Graff-2w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 384px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://journalism.indiana.edu/archive/hsji/staff.html#graff"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pat Graff</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.lacuevabears.com/users/lchsschool/Data/InfoFiles/Edition/may2011edition.pdf?20110710142255"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Education</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rrobserver.com/opinion/columns/article_5b243f66-0d4b-11e0-82ba-001cc4c03286.html?mode=image"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rockford M. Hayes</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rrobserver.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Journalism</span></a></span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592458128175365842" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PYety0zfz-0/TZxnCZcjftI/AAAAAAAAILs/s39LNMQg278/s400/Feldman_w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 296px;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rrobserver.com/"></a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://dedefeldman.com/modules.php?name=Aboutme"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dede Feldman</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">– </span><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?sponcode=sfeld"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2008</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589610348703555426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9kmaDB2xHAA/TZJI_0NSn2I/AAAAAAAAIDg/x_mv87doBkc/s400/11%253A01%253A26-SPJ-Media-Law-P1262205w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 254px;" /><a href="http://www.dineslaw.com/pages/gregory-williams.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Greg Williams</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span>– <a href="http://www.dineslaw.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Law</span></a></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.daily-times.com/contactus/ci_12762237"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Sammy Lopez</span></a> – <a href="http://www.daily-times.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Journalism</span></a><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591311993537139634" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1wIv_h8_1ms/TZhUolMpk7I/AAAAAAAAIJs/E5YblY1FCCQ/s400/07%253A05%253A07-Council-White-60wa.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 304px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><a href="http://www.daily-times.com/"></a></span><a href="http://roblesrael.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=5&amp;Itemid=5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bob White</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;– Government (since retiring as City Attorney for Albuquerque, he is now a member of FOG’s board.)</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is_21.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Prologue</span></span></a></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_914417013"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part One: Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez’ June 10, 2010 visit to Conspiracy Brews,</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-who-gets.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Martinez August 11, 2010, Education Reform Press conference</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Two: August 11, 2010, Albuquerque Public School’s Communications department</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/part-three-august-19-2010-aps-2010.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Three: August 19, 2010, APS 2010 Gubernatorial Education Debate.</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_27.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Four: August 22, 2010 request to Democratic nominee for Lt. Gov. Brian Colõn for assistance getting placed back on the campaign’s media list.</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_30.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Five: Mayor Richard Berry’s ABQ View Press Conference</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Six: August 25, 2010, APS Audit committee</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_03.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Seven September 1, 2010 APS Board</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-ispart.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Eight September 11, 2010 firefighters</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_199694538"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Nine: September 13, 2010, Cangiolosi</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_11.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 10 September 20, 2010 MacQuigg Unilaterally Taking Up the Debate</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_17.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 11 September 23, 2010, APS IPRA</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_27.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 12 September 26, 2010, Congregation Albert gubernatorial debate</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_82644441"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 13, White House Media Affairs</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/02/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_03.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 14 Obama</span></a></span></span></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24946442-8887267642113340496?l=mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-41569036989431547772012-02-03T03:41:00.027-07:002012-02-04T04:17:51.202-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">September 27, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Obama’s scheduled arrival was 6:55 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">White House Media Affairs Office Associate Director of Press Advance Brandon Lepow, along with John Cochran and staff of Kirtland's 377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Office met members of the press at a gate to the base to escort them to Base Operations.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PO2ykQiF4Mg/TVS3j92RBuI/AAAAAAAAHRw/8R3QYh4sPUo/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0957w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="230" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572280467489621730" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PO2ykQiF4Mg/TVS3j92RBuI/AAAAAAAAHRw/8R3QYh4sPUo/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0957w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The escort was delayed momentarily while a recording of </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.flagetiquette.us/flag/music.php"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">retreat</span></a></span><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">was followed by the national anthem as the Base flag was lowered at 5:00 PM. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://xmphotos.com/About_Me___Contact.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Xavier Mascareñas</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, above right checked shirt, salutes while Albuquerque Journal Photographer Morgan Petroski, far right, watches.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mascareñas, a 2008 Photojournalism graduate of UNM, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://xmphotos.com/wordpress/archives/tag/photos"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">photographs</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> for </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_News"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">The Journal News</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> from New York’s lower Hudson Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He has served as:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Staff photographer at the Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque, N.M.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Multimedia/photo editor at the NM Daily Lobo, Albuquerque, N.M.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Photo intern at the Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Senior photographer at the The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Staff photographer at The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The professionalism of the White House staffer Lepow and Kirtland’s Public Affairs office stands out in stark contrast to the media handlers of the gubernatorial campaigns.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There were no political events scheduled during the president’s visit according to Lepow.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572280823147132706" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS34qxn9yI/AAAAAAAAHR4/PJjpKOQVHy8/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0977w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The local press, made up mostly of still photographers and TV reporter – photographer crews set up on a gooseneck trailer, which provided an unusually stable platform. As the sun went down, the shadows began lengthening across the tarmac. The </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/c17/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">C-17</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> support aircraft used to ferry the, “secure package,” of Secret Service vehicles: the SUV limousines follow up and communications vehicles sat in the sunlight.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Eg13zjWFmJk/TVS4UWKyocI/AAAAAAAAHSA/_g4-AvFZcso/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0978w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572281298651881922" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Eg13zjWFmJk/TVS4UWKyocI/AAAAAAAAHSA/_g4-AvFZcso/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0978w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.kob.com/index.shtml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">KOB TV</span></a> Political Reporter </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S53801.shtml"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stuart Dyson</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> did a teaser live shot leading up to the 6:30 Eyewitness Newscast. I overheard a Secret Service radio transmission announcing, “six minutes” until arrival.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS4mPz_aZI/AAAAAAAAHSI/SN1W0QxT-rk/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0187w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="308" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572281606183283090" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS4mPz_aZI/AAAAAAAAHSI/SN1W0QxT-rk/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0187w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Air Force One flew over the Manzano Mountains to the South, then approached from the southwest landing on <a href="http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1201/00012AD.PDF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">runway 3</span></a> to the northeast touching down at 6:35 p.m.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bpGrNaibroU/TVS4_yMIaoI/AAAAAAAAHSQ/Q1Hv25JIUWc/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0216w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="139" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572282044908071554" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bpGrNaibroU/TVS4_yMIaoI/AAAAAAAAHSQ/Q1Hv25JIUWc/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0216w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Upon touch down, two Secret Service vehicles followed the <a href="http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=45"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">VC-25</span></a> military transport, tail number </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/air-force-one"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">29000</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, an aircraft based on a <a href="http://www.boeing-747.com/boeing_747_family/747-200b.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Boeing 747-200B</span></a>, to Base Operations.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS5cGVUYbI/AAAAAAAAHSY/Hkq2o1a16go/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0224w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572282531351650738" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS5cGVUYbI/AAAAAAAAHSY/Hkq2o1a16go/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0224w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Air Force One represents the power of the United States of America; with the majestic bearing of the White House, but it has wings and cruises at Mach 0.85, about 600 mph.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS537kZsfI/AAAAAAAAHSg/msQ9sL4WBGg/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0240w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572283009498460658" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS537kZsfI/AAAAAAAAHSg/msQ9sL4WBGg/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0240w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">These Air Force pilots have got to consider this to be the best flying assignments around, maybe only after getting to fly one of the hottest fighters in the inventory.</span></div></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS6geNwKxI/AAAAAAAAHSo/NqcZKhZ0Wyw/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-F-22-Raptor_0169w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572283705993472786" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS6geNwKxI/AAAAAAAAHSo/NqcZKhZ0Wyw/s400/10%253A09%253A27-F-22-Raptor_0169w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This Lockheed Martin </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/f22/"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">F-22</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Raptor from the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.holloman.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4363"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">49th Wing</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> stationed at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.holloman.af.mil/units/index.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Holloman Air Force Base</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span>at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on the taxiway is the proud display of American military might and power. It took off about 25-minutes before the arrival of the President. If the pilot flew directly to Holloman at just under Mach speed, half the capable speed of the aircraft, the pilot would have had his/her feet on the ground before the President.</span></span><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS6rnralzI/AAAAAAAAHSw/GxpCEHUjRAw/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-F-22-Raptor_1065w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572283897512367922" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS6rnralzI/AAAAAAAAHSw/GxpCEHUjRAw/s400/10%253A09%253A27-F-22-Raptor_1065w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As the aircraft departed to the east, it performed a max-performance take-off; upon lifting off the runway, it retracted its gear, flew level with full after burners lit, then rotated to vertical and went </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22-specs.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">straight up</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> on a smokeless column of fire and noise, with greater thrust than its weight, until it disappeared from sight, when the pilot shut off the after burner.</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">The president’s arrival was not a "public event," but it was attended by a welcoming line of state and local dignitaries and about a hundred people corralled in a holding pen.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS8IQkVPbI/AAAAAAAAHS4/1zJKUC_WyyE/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0249w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572285489036475826" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS8IQkVPbI/AAAAAAAAHS4/1zJKUC_WyyE/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0249w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="340" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">President Obama stepped out of Air Force One into the golden light of a clear-skied New Mexico late summer setting sun, which clearly impressed him.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS8g9wpVjI/AAAAAAAAHTA/0vbXTBPYXYs/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0262w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572285913484580402" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS8g9wpVjI/AAAAAAAAHTA/0vbXTBPYXYs/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0262w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="362" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Obama is greeted by Albuquerque Mayor&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cabq.gov/mayor/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Richard Berry</span></a>, one of 24 official greeters; local politicians, party loyalists, and office seekers assembled to meet him, included:</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">New Mexico Governor&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.billrichardson.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bill Richardson</span></a>,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">U.S. Congressman <a href="http://heinrich.house.gov/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Martin Heinrich</span></a>, (D) N.M.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Santa Fe Mayor <a href="http://www.santafenm.gov/index.aspx?NID=66"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">David Coss</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.kirtland.af.mil/index.asp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Kirtland Air Force Base</span></a> Commanders,&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">Brig. Gen. <a href="http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9144"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Evrerett H. Thomas</span></a>,&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center commander,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Col. <a href="http://www.kirtland.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123267781"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Robert L. Maness</span></a>, 377th Air Base Wing commander,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">New Mexico State Treasurer <a href="http://www.nmsto.gov/AboutTheTreasurersOffice"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">James Lewis</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">New Mexico State Auditor <a href="http://www.saonm.org/about_hector_balderas"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Hector Balderas</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">New Mexico Democratic Party Lt. Gov. candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Colon"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Brian Colõn</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">former First Lady of New Mexico <a href="http://www.nmsu.edu/~ucomm/Panorama/fall2010/d_aggie-whirl_article-6.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Clara Apodaca</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">LaDonna Giron, lawyer,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">President of the NEA NM Sharon Morgan,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bernalillo County Commissioner <a href="http://bernco.gov/art-de-la-cruz---biography-2769/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Art De La Cruz</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Maureen Sanders, lawyer,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">one unknown woman,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">President and Chief Executive Officer Center for Civic Values Michelle Giger,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mrycllns.blogspot.com/2008/04/bruce-barnaby-announces-bid-for.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bruce Barnaby</span></a>, New Mexico Democratic Party Rules Committee,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">John Pound, Santa Fe Attorney, Obama New Mexico campaign coordinator,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">former U.S. Senator <a href="http://www.unm.edu/~polsci/faculty.htm#harrisFred"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Fred Harris</span></a>, (D) Oklahoma and UNM,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-New Mexico and is also the President of the NM State Federation of Labor <a href="http://www.aft.org/about/leadership/vp_bios/trujillo.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Christine Trujillo</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Governor of the Pueblo of Pojoaque <a href="http://www.towa-artists.com/george-rivera/bio.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">George Rivera</span></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department <a href="http://www.iad.state.nm.us/docs/inews/dec10-inews.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Alvin Warren</span></a>, and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">New Mexico State Rep. <a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HPARK"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Al Park</span></a>, (D) Bernalillo County.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS83vRauKI/AAAAAAAAHTI/RmvxKuvRcUA/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1139w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572286304732493986" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS83vRauKI/AAAAAAAAHTI/RmvxKuvRcUA/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1139w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">About halfway thru the reception line, Obama paused to take in the sunset. Though in a crowd, he clearly took a moment for himself. Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza, to the right of this picture turned to see at what the President was looking. To the left of the President is a balding man, Bruce Barnaby, to his left is a woman with grey hair, she is Michelle Giger. Souza failed to photograph her when Obama shook her hand because of the distraction of the setting sun.</span></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS9OVkZPKI/AAAAAAAAHTQ/_jDV3G_wvO4/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0302w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572286692969757858" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVS9OVkZPKI/AAAAAAAAHTQ/_jDV3G_wvO4/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0302w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">As the president continued to speak with the greeters, Congressman Heinrich, Mayor Berry, and Gov. Richardson, turned to admire Air Force One.</span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NpcoCqROfEY/TVS94KqhdzI/AAAAAAAAHTY/Oe-1dK5C6BI/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-USSS_0186w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572287411597178674" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NpcoCqROfEY/TVS94KqhdzI/AAAAAAAAHTY/Oe-1dK5C6BI/s640/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-USSS_0186w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="424" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.secretservice.gov/protection.shtml"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Security</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">&nbsp;</span>was tight as usual with&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.secretservice.gov/"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">United States Secret Service</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">&nbsp;</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.secretservice.gov/whoweare_sa.shtml"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Special Agents</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">, USSS&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.secretservice.gov/whoweare_ud.shtml"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Uniformed Division</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;manning magnetometers, and counter-sniper teams, in&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.secretservice.gov/protection_works.shtml"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">abundance</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A2iHGm_jbrg/TVS-xtQa7oI/AAAAAAAAHTg/l16ElYKP_e4/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-USSS_0177w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="231" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572288400135483010" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A2iHGm_jbrg/TVS-xtQa7oI/AAAAAAAAHTg/l16ElYKP_e4/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-USSS_0177w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Army dog handlers of the&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.cbrne.army.mil/subordinates.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">79th Ordnance Battalion</span></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;from&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.hood.army.mil/"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Fort Hood</span></span><span style="color: #0027ec; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">,</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;Killeen, Texas, checked through all media equipment and guests. State, County and City law enforcement agencies provided motorcade escort, route control, and added event site security.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTIInh5B7I/AAAAAAAAHTw/bgDZOuzI26c/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1005w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572298689339787186" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTIInh5B7I/AAAAAAAAHTw/bgDZOuzI26c/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1005w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">The always agent protected presidential Chevrolet Suburban was placed so the President is only steps away from a secured environment. It moves where he moves.</span><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTFjP4iSiI/AAAAAAAAHTo/op2y2OKkGIc/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1015w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="256" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572295848313899554" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTFjP4iSiI/AAAAAAAAHTo/op2y2OKkGIc/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1015w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">The “Football” with the nuclear launch codes was passed from a Naval Officer to a Marine Major. The “Football” is never far from president in case there is a need to respond a nuclear attack.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTInY3e4ZI/AAAAAAAAHT4/k0Y1kIQsBws/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-Colon_1248w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="253" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572299217979761042" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTInY3e4ZI/AAAAAAAAHT4/k0Y1kIQsBws/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-Colon_1248w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">I talked with Colõn a minute about the situation of my not being allowed by his campaign to cover or photograph Denish.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“I’ll talk with you any time; you know I like you,” Colõn said to me, as he walked alone to the hanger after he had separated from the reception line group to glad hand one of the people sequestered in the public greeters pen.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x0RbpXoc-ac/TVTI0tKhpaI/AAAAAAAAHUA/i8FuroSrhJw/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-8aw.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="225" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572299446766642594" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x0RbpXoc-ac/TVTI0tKhpaI/AAAAAAAAHUA/i8FuroSrhJw/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-8aw.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The 26-member flight crew of Air Force One buttons up the plane and leaves it in the charge of the Air Force Security Police and the Secret Service for the night.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QarcPiqPZ7g/TVTJZWgwncI/AAAAAAAAHUI/C_9DoirVhto/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1044w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="355" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572300076341042626" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QarcPiqPZ7g/TVTJZWgwncI/AAAAAAAAHUI/C_9DoirVhto/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1044w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><img alt="" border="0" height="153" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572300685994618466" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTJ81pf7mI/AAAAAAAAHUQ/qGmaF_qJWNI/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1057w.jpg" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><br /><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">September 28, 2010</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the Andy Cavalier family backyard event with neighbors in the South Valley, the Democratic Party managed to sneak in a partisan political event, a photo op, when Denish took Obama to the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=barelas+coffee+house&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=barelas+coffee+house&amp;hnear=Albuquerque,+NM&amp;cid=14154905276368660120"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Barelas Coffee House</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He talked to staff and patrons, saying vote Democrat. Obama ordered take out, saying he was paying for it himself so the press wouldn’t blame him for leaving without paying, according to the local pool report through the White House Media Affairs Office by Albuquerque Journal’s political reporter Sean Olson.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTzljEM17I/AAAAAAAAHUY/CnL8SwEh50M/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Tryptic_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572346465357715378" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVTzljEM17I/AAAAAAAAHUY/CnL8SwEh50M/s640/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Tryptic_w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="306" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The press covering Air Force One’s departure was escorted to Base Operation’s ramp and passed through a series of checkpoints under heavy security to wait a couple of hours in the hot sun.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oLe3lApe7q8/TVTz_lXhf6I/AAAAAAAAHUg/SFmaorhPDmE/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_0356w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="270" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572346912652230562" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oLe3lApe7q8/TVTz_lXhf6I/AAAAAAAAHUg/SFmaorhPDmE/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_0356w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"></span></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bcLp2gV5MZQ/TVT0eD4AbMI/AAAAAAAAHUo/8byGAiwKw3k/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-KAFB-PIOs_0354w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="294" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572347436237614274" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bcLp2gV5MZQ/TVT0eD4AbMI/AAAAAAAAHUo/8byGAiwKw3k/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-KAFB-PIOs_0354w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The staff of the Kirtland Air Force Base Public Affairs office sought some shade under the trailer being used as a press riser/camera platform.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qh9WG_CpGVs/TVT21ohzoqI/AAAAAAAAHUw/ZMn7TH0NAr0/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1298w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572350040236860066" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qh9WG_CpGVs/TVT21ohzoqI/AAAAAAAAHUw/ZMn7TH0NAr0/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1298w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Arriving at Kirtland Air Force Base, Obama got out of the SUV, put on his jacket, ran up the steps, to Air Force One.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aCtxnp2ftJU/TVT7-80FgXI/AAAAAAAAHWU/gpC-Y7hFkRk/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Souza-1wa.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="368" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572355697859199346" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aCtxnp2ftJU/TVT7-80FgXI/AAAAAAAAHWU/gpC-Y7hFkRk/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Souza-1wa.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Pete Souza’s exclusive access, lower left, allowed him to make a picture using the flags in his foreground, on the SUV.</span></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EkTmGrqjCKc/TVT4U0H3tXI/AAAAAAAAHVQ/67Za8Fd4WXE/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-28-Obama-Limo-Flags_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572351675436873074" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EkTmGrqjCKc/TVT4U0H3tXI/AAAAAAAAHVQ/67Za8Fd4WXE/s640/10%253A09%253A27-28-Obama-Limo-Flags_w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="413" /></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">My efforts to incorporate the presidential and American flags both days instantly fell as Souza got “the” picture.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT3NTSwiyI/AAAAAAAAHU4/7PffkAhpmTc/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1308w.jpg"></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT3NTSwiyI/AAAAAAAAHU4/7PffkAhpmTc/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1308w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572350446853458722" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT3NTSwiyI/AAAAAAAAHU4/7PffkAhpmTc/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1308w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The President stopped at the top of the steps, turned around giving about a three-second wave.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iHjuQ5KeDCc/TVT4zXAtSBI/AAAAAAAAHVY/jvrYvVhkVyE/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Football-USSS_1284w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="276" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572352200198146066" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iHjuQ5KeDCc/TVT4zXAtSBI/AAAAAAAAHVY/jvrYvVhkVyE/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Football-USSS_1284w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">This Naval Lieutenant Commander stood in the shade of the wing, chatting with a secret service agent while awaiting the Marine to hand off the “Football”.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yzwsbHfMs5U/TVT5Q0QuiDI/AAAAAAAAHVg/u8lMg4kcob0/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1342w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572352706266171442" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yzwsbHfMs5U/TVT5Q0QuiDI/AAAAAAAAHVg/u8lMg4kcob0/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1342w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The Marine Major showed a sigh of relief; another assignment completed without having to fulfill the duty for which he is ultimately trained; no nuclear war on his watch.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT3jrZ7mgI/AAAAAAAAHVA/SanwP0hrey8/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="165" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572350831283116546" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT3jrZ7mgI/AAAAAAAAHVA/SanwP0hrey8/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-1w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Lepow, center with his back turned, shepherded the about 20 members of D.C. Press corps as they loaded up on Air Force One.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT591fW1LI/AAAAAAAAHVs/THvggFQTFKg/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1367w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572353479690081458" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT591fW1LI/AAAAAAAAHVs/THvggFQTFKg/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1367w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The senior Air Force Non-Commissioned Officers seen reflected in the highly polished silver skin of the aircraft are the last to board.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dPp_nkSQKjM/TVT6TuaFDvI/AAAAAAAAHV0/GWPzALLWe0g/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-4w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="253" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572353855746019058" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dPp_nkSQKjM/TVT6TuaFDvI/AAAAAAAAHV0/GWPzALLWe0g/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-4w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Within moments of the rear door being secured, the jets roared to life and as the plane turned, one of two Secret Service agents turns to avoid the jet blast.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XV1D1Mm-KaQ/TVT6pYMzraI/AAAAAAAAHV8/8Am2KeMouhw/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1392w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="285" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572354227741896098" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XV1D1Mm-KaQ/TVT6pYMzraI/AAAAAAAAHV8/8Am2KeMouhw/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure_1392w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The massive VC-25, in an effort to engage in noise abatement procedures, departed to the southwest, raising a huge cloud of dust along the way. Aircraft of this size are not regular visitors to the Sunport. Air Force One, hidden in the tree, under the light pole, turned north heading to its next stop, Madison, Wis.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT6-bOUPzI/AAAAAAAAHWE/-nEpN42nSIg/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-BCSO-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="321" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572354589330784050" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT6-bOUPzI/AAAAAAAAHWE/-nEpN42nSIg/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-BCSO-1w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.bernco.gov/upload/images/sheriff/recruit_test/bcso.wmv"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">’s </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.eurocopterusa.com/products/AS350B3-specifications.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Eurocopter AS 350 B3</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> flew aerial surveillance during the motorcade’s movement returns to its hanger on Kirtland.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" height="225" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572354953148844354" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-25pYZ1ECwfY/TVT7TmjTSUI/AAAAAAAAHWM/AukuR2ng--w/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-BCSO-3w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">So what’s wrong with this picture?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">President Obama’s September 27-28, 2010 visit was choreographed to as close to perfection as a fluid event as might be expected. Every detail is meticulously staged, but where else is a man arriving on an airplane met by forty or more media cameras, and a hundred or so people who willingly call themselves friends on hand to greet him.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The credential verification process by the White House Media Affairs Office was handled in the normal course of business.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In speaking with Associate Director of Press Advance Lepow about how the President’s media affairs office deals with news organizations perceived as less than supportive of the administration’s agenda? “They get in,” Lepow said, “taking hits is just part of the political process.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not all presidential administrations have been so open; maybe not even this one.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I made numerous attempts to cover President George W. Bush’s </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://theblueflyer.com/Blue%20Flyer%20html%20folder/George%20W%20Bush%20Home.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">visits</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> to Albuquerque with little success.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On June 16, 2006, I photographed President Bush’s limousine with Rep. Heather Wilson going to a private fundraiser. I entitled my post, “</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2006/06/can-we-see-george.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Can We See George?</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part of the post was about retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. John Sullivan, who had piloted Vice President Walter Mondale’s Air Force Two. Mondale was Jimmy Carter’s vice president, for their one-term from 1977 to 1981. Sullivan was dismayed when Air Police stopped us from watching President Bush embark Air Force One. There is something fundamentally wrong when American citizens can’t go to the airport to see their president board their tax-paid airplane and watch it take-off. Sullivan said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You might recall during the 2006 Congressional District race, First Lady Laura Bush </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2006/12/can-we-see-laura.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">visited</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Albuquerque on November 3. I applied for credentials through an Albuquerque based volunteer staffer at New Mexico Victory, who was handling press matters for the White House. He later informed me that I passed the Secret Service’s background check and was authorized a pass.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, before arriving at the event the volunteer staffer left a voice mail message that someone locally quashed my name denying me access. Before it was over, I was never able to ascertain who overrode the White House and Secret Service, be it the State Party Chairman Allen Weh, Rep. Heather Wilson’s campaign, or NM Victory.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You may also recall the Aug. 27, 2007, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2007/08/it-wasnt-just-non-eventit-was-tragedy_28.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">visit</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> of President Bush to Albuquerque and more specifically, the Village of Los Rancho de Albuquerque’s Mayor Larry Abraham’s home on Rio Grande Boulevard, for a Sen. Pete Domenici fund-raiser.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The non-pooled press corps was relegated to a far off cordoned area along with protestors while President Bush’s supporters were allowed to stand across the road from the main driveway to cheer him on. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2008/01/aclu-is-on-loose.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">The American Civil Liberties Union</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, in pursuing a lawsuit, obtained the October 2002, "Presidential Advance Manual," in which there were strict instructions on how to eliminate protesters’ access to see and petition their government.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I eventually was able to </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2008/06/election-fraud.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">photograph</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> President Bush’s arrival and departure on May 27, 2008, when he attended a fund-raiser for Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White who was in a primary race for the Republican nomination for New Mexico’s First Congressional District; a seat vacated by Rep. Heather Wilson who was running for the Senate Seat of then retiring Sen. Pete Domenici.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As tightly choreographed as the presidential administrations have become, the Obama administration, which promised to be more transparent seems to put on a more polished show than did the Bush administration. However, there is still a struggle, especially for the reporters covering this administration, in getting to the information.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT-9U2-3ZI/AAAAAAAAHWk/6lXUKPmFdGg/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0284w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="350" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572358968488942994" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVT-9U2-3ZI/AAAAAAAAHWk/6lXUKPmFdGg/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_0284w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">However, getting visuals of President Obama’s arrival and his basking in the warm New Mexico sunset light with his political supporters and those seeking his support, Democratic Party Lt. Gov. candidate Brian Colõn, was no problem.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001bed; font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is_21.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Prologue</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_914417013"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part One: Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez’ June 10, 2010 visit to Conspiracy Brews,</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-who-gets.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Martinez August 11, 2010, Education Reform Press conference</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Two: August 11, 2010, Albuquerque Public School’s Communications department</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/part-three-august-19-2010-aps-2010.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Three: August 19, 2010, APS 2010 Gubernatorial Education Debate.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_27.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Four: August 22, 2010 request to Democratic nominee for Lt. Gov. Brian Colõn for assistance getting placed back on the campaign’s media list.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_30.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Five: Mayor Richard Berry’s ABQ View Press Conference</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Six: August 25, 2010, APS Audit committee</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_03.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Seven September 1, 2010 APS Board</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-ispart.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Eight September 11, 2010 firefighters</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_199694538"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Nine: September 13, 2010, Cangiolosi</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_11.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part 10 September 20, 2010 MacQuigg Unilaterally Taking Up the Debate</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_17.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part 11 September 23, 2010, APS IPRA</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_27.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part 12 September 26, 2010, Congregation Albert gubernatorial debate</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_82644441"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part 13, White House Media Affairs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24946442-4156903698943154777?l=mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-74256336329051765152012-01-31T10:43:00.073-07:002012-02-11T11:50:49.246-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">THE WHITE HOUSE<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Office of Media Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>September 17, 2010</div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>President Obama to Continue His Conversations with Middle-Class Families</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <b>Focus on Moving the Economy Forward</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq">WASHINGTON -- Later this month, the President will continue his conversations with middle-class Americans with stops in New Mexico, Iowa, and Virginia. Throughout the summer, President Obama has met with families to listen to their concerns and to discuss specific ways to jumpstart job creation and strengthen the middle class. He met with residents of Fairfax, Virginia, earlier this week, and families in Columbus, Ohio, in August.</blockquote><blockquote>During this upcoming trip, the President will continue his focus on moving the economy forward and getting people back to work, while rebuilding a strong economic foundation to ensure future prosperity for all Americans.</blockquote><blockquote>The President will participate in events in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on September 28, and Des Moines, Iowa, and Richmond, Virginia, on September 29. More details about the President’s travel, including press credentialing information, will be released in the coming days.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Upon RSVPing The White House Media Affairs Office’s on-line form, it requested as series of pretty standard questions, which have existed from administration to administration; except there was a choice, of what kind of journalism is being practiced. It is a holdover from the 2008 Obama campaign; there was an option for “Blogger Reporter.” I opted for Still Photographer and in the media outlet option wrote Freelance.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The White House Media Affairs Office e-mailed:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Monday evening arrival and Tuesday afternoon departure of Air Force One in Albuquerque as well as the discussion on the economy will be open to pre-credentialed media. However, space for the discussion is limited. The meeting will be pooled press. The arrival and departure of Air Force One as well as the discussion on the economy are closed to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">President Obama’s discussion on the economy, event with the Andy Cavalier family and neighbors in the South Valley was pooled for television, still photography, and print. I did not request credentials for the Tuesday morning event because of the pool protocol. The </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_pool"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">pool</span></a></span><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/on-assignment-a-photo-op-more-like-a-photo-hop/"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">differs</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> a </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://blog.photography.si.edu/2009/05/28/white-house-photo-pool/"><span style="color: #99c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">l</span><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">ittle</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> on the road than it does at the White House; it includes local members of the media.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In D.C., the White House </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5572974"><span style="color: #99c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">press pool</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is selected by members of the respective disciplines of the media through the White House Correspondents and the White House Press Photographers Associations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">White House news magazine photo pool was reduced in the past couple of years when U.S. News &amp; World Report and Newsweek withdrew from their arrangement. Television networks alternate in providing coverage for the pool. If there is an opportunity for a one-on-one interview with the president at the local level the local pool TV photographer will provide the images to the other participating stations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not permitting pool access won't deter a </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/ap/no-photo-of-the-dalai-lama-at-the-white-house-heres-why/10150089644595651"><span style="color: #99c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">dedicated</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and resourceful photographer.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUEwomU8AI/AAAAAAAAHWs/0Enj7FN17Bo/s1600/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Pool-AJ-Jim-Thompson_1357w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="273" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572365347519262722" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUEwomU8AI/AAAAAAAAHWs/0Enj7FN17Bo/s400/10%253A09%253A28-Obama-Departure-Pool-AJ-Jim-Thompson_1357w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span>The Albuquerque Journal’s Jim Thompson, here with Associate Director White House Press Advance Brandon Lepow was the local pool still photographer on Tuesday. Lepow escorted Thompson from the rear of Air Force One after the D.C. pool was loaded onto board. Thompson had ridden with the pool in the motorcade from the day’s earlier events.<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Journal’s Sean Olsen was the print pool reporter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Traditionally, the pool is selected by the print writers, radio reporters, television, and still photographers; organized by a local press club or through a coordinated effort. One of the conditions of being the pool photographer is you must share all your work with those who could not attend. Local television stations already have pools in effect, especially to cover Metropolitan Court arraignments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pools are also used during campaigns, especially after a front-runner attracts more press coverage and when a nominee is selected.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Republican Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain made a </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-john-mccain-lost-new-mexico00.htmlhttp://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-john-mccain-lost-new-mexico00.html"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">brief stop</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in Albuquerque on Friday Oct. 3, 2008, to speak at a campaign event at UNM.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i2vB1d_jeRI/TXneeMijpsI/AAAAAAAAH2Q/O2y-Ku8aKfc/s1600/McCain-UNM_0979wa.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="330" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582737823446050498" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i2vB1d_jeRI/TXneeMijpsI/AAAAAAAAH2Q/O2y-Ku8aKfc/s400/McCain-UNM_0979wa.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>A local press pool was assembled and placed in a holding area to ride in the motorcade.<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The members were:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Albuquerque Journal Photographer, Pat Cunningham,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">KOAT TV Photographer J.P. Hyso, with back turned towards camera,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Albuquerque Journal Government / Politics Staff Writer Daniel Boyd, in the brown shirt,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">KOAT Reporter Mike Garofalo on the cell phone,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">McCain’s Press Advance Matthew Cohen, monitored and accompanied the local press.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The two men on the right are unidentified and may have been van drivers for the motorcade.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As President-elect, Obama spent some vacation time in Hawaii and New Mexico Independent's Matthew Reichbach's </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://newmexicoindependent.com/13460/the-life-of-a-pool-reporter-on-a-slow-news-day"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">look</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> at a December 28, 2008 </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://thepage.time.com/2008/12/28/obama-visits-high-school-friend-in-hawaii/"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">post</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by Time magazine's political blogger Mark Halperin, about the sometimes mundane nature of being a member of the press pool.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As much as I would have liked to cover the backyard gathering and the stop at Barelas Coffee House, I would have declined being the pool still photographer, mostly because I would not have been willing to put myself under the deadline, which is required. I have no complaint about Thompson’s selection, but though I got Olsen’s cryptic notes, through the White House Office of Media Affairs, I saw no pictures from Thompson.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The reasoning for making independent photographs is to be an eye witness. I, like every other news outlet, try to bring my viewers the best images and words I can. Those who follow a particular outlet or, hopefully, several outlets, do so for a variety of reasons. The reasoning may include quality of work, tone, and a certain attachment to the style of coverage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Politics, like many other human endeavors, are a form of theater. People try to put forth their best appearances, be it: attractiveness, fashion, style, manner, eloquence, candor, approachability, friendliness, and other qualities, and characteristics. Intentionally or not; honestly or disingenuously, it's all an act.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Some of us are iconoclasts, we attempt to penetrate the mask worn by our public officials in the public theater. We seek to show those moments, as brief as they may be, that reveal the true nature of the person, Don't read "true nature" as a bad thing, only that it is contrary to the role individuals try to project.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The highest level of political theater is the attempt for politician to appear to be open honest and candid. Those who do it well are probably accepted by the public better and judged on their words and actions rather than any sight of possible manipulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The use of "security" for politicians plays a big role in how the public theater is staged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To my friends in the security business, I am not attacking the importance of or your role in protection, just mentioning the fact security is a reality that represents part of the staging.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span>Some administrations at different levels: international, national, state and local levels have been able to assimilate security with those whose job it quite literally is to prepare the stage.<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TFTywpeuUSs/TeyQPoo8hFI/AAAAAAAAIkE/0ociQ2LSZL8/s1600/Obama%2BRio%2BRancho_0535.tif"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615021433705759826" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TFTywpeuUSs/TeyQPoo8hFI/AAAAAAAAIkE/0ociQ2LSZL8/s400/Obama%2BRio%2BRancho_0535.tif" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a>As seen above when President Obama made a May 2009 visit to Rio Rancho High School three years ago, a Secret Service Special Agent, left and Associate Director White House Press Advance Lepow, right, stood at the front of the hall and assessed the crowd just before the formal introduction began.<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the instant media world of coverage, even the crowd is part of the stage, and they must be ready to play their roles, on cue, and without missing a beat. The use of a shill, someone planted in audiences, during the first year or so in office, followed the campaign tradition, in large crowds, of yelling out, "we love you, Mr. President," to which Obama would respond, "I love you right back." it happens less frequently now.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza, the president’s official photographer, has </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/26/souza.photos/index.html"><span style="color: #8ac5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">access</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and his images of such closed events are sometimes provided to the media as handouts.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/no_handouts.php?page=all"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Some</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> think this </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://cjrarchive.org/img/posts/WHNPA_WHLetter012209.pdf"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">unacceptable</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in a free society that claims to believe in the principles of a free press.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Associated Press, Reuters, and other news organizations, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/no_handouts.php"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">refus</span><span style="color: #93c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">e</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> to put Souza’s images, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0109/News_agencies_refuse_Obama_photos_visual_press_releases_.html"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">handed out</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> by the White House Press Office, on their wires citing they are not the result of independent journalism, but official government photos.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Souza, was a staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune, and </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.viscom.ohiou.edu/faculty_souza.phtml"><span style="color: #87c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">assistant professor</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> of photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.petesouza.com/gallery.html?gallery=The%20Rise%20of%20Barack%20Obama"><span style="color: #87c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">before</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> becoming the White House photographer. He supported the NPPA’s stand against accepting handout photos. Souza had also been one of four rotating White House photographers during the Ronald Reagan Administration.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>After President Barack Obama officially announced the killing of Osama Bin Laden on national television, May 1, 2011, he reenacted his walk to the East Room and read the first several paragraphs of his speech for the benefit of the assigned still photo pool.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This was not a new practice, but it wasn't a truth either.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reuters White House photographer Jason Reed detailed his experience on his Jason's feed, blog posting, "</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/05/02/ready-to-record-history/"><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Ready to record history</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">." The other pool photographers were: Associated Press, Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AFP’s Chris Kleponis, The New York Times’ Doug Mills, and freelancer Brendan Smialowski filling the ISP (Independent Still Photographer)'s slot.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The discussion of photographers reenacting the television event exploded, the ethics of the practice of access to the President's events by White House Press photographers was called into question. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.poynter.org/"><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Poytner Institute's</span></a></span><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.poynter.org/author/atompkins/"><span style="color: #87c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Al Tompkins</span></a></span><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">wrote, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/130913/reuters-ap-photojournalists-describe-staging-of-obama-photo-staged-after-announcement-of-bin-ladens-death/"><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Reuters, AP photojournalists describe staging of Obama photo</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It's not a new issue, as observed by, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2011/02/editorial.html"><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">White House: A Chance To Start Over</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, an editorial by News Photographer Magazine Editor Donald R. Winslow, who also wrote a more recent series of articles on the issue:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2011/05/binladen.html"><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">From White House To Pakistan, Photos Play Strange Role In Bin Laden Drama</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2011/05/obama.html"><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Obama White House: No More Photo Re-Enactments</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2011/06/potus.html"><span style="color: #87c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">White House, Photographers, Agree On New Presidential Poo</span></a></span><span style="color: #84c5e9; font-family: Arial;">l</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/11/the-presidents-photographer-television-book.html"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">White House Photographer</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110504258.html"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Cecil Stoughton</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">, a Captain, then Major in the Army Signal Corps, assigned to the Office of the Naval Aide to the President, became President John Kennedy’s </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2030983,00.html"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">in house</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> photographer; he also </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&amp;int_new=42980"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">served</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> President Lyndon Johnson until 1966.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stoughton’s handout photograph of Johnson’s </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200702A13.html"><span style="color: #90c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">swearing in</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> on Air Force One just hours after Kennedy’s assassination probably was his signature piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stoughton also had a </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903874,00.html"><span style="color: #90c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">run-in</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> with President Richard Nixon at the January 20, 1973, second inaugural. Stoughton was working as chief photographer at the National Parks Service and went to the inauguration to photograph the swearing in.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A secret service agent told him to move, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://thenewnixon.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/BE021726.jpg"><span style="color: #90c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">so he did</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. He went down the main aisle knelt down and took his picture; only problem was he was wearing a bright blue and orange plaid jacket and he was in the background of Ollie Atkins’ “</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Nixon_1973_inauguration.jpg"><span style="color: #90c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">official photograph</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s not the first time that photographers of presidential inaugurations had </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/54511/in-carousel/15821#index/29"><span style="color: #90c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">distractions</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in the background of their pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUIClb-EAI/AAAAAAAAHW0/ohrwuLoQj54/s1600/73%253A01%253A20-Nixon-Oath-109aw"><img alt="" border="0" height="228" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572368954443042818" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUIClb-EAI/AAAAAAAAHW0/ohrwuLoQj54/s400/73%253A01%253A20-Nixon-Oath-109aw" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My picture of the swearing in, above, was taken from ground level, while the “official” photographer was on a tiered platform some 25 to 40 feet above the ground, below left. Those photographers had a downward angle on the scene and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.homeofheroes.com/presidents/inaugural/inaug_nixon_2.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http://www.homeofheroes.com/presidents/inaugural/37_nixon_2.html&amp;usg=__7mf0F13YvDMTjCsyaTpJOydk3NI=&amp;h=340&amp;w=605&amp;sz=22&amp;hl=en&amp;start=270&amp;zoom=1&amp;um=1&amp;itbs=1&amp;tbnid=S-A3dhx6bT0M0M:&amp;tbnh=76&amp;tbnw=135&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3DNixon%2B1973%2Binauguration%26start%3D260%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1&amp;ei=dBdVTYbDEouusAPXw-WvBQ"><span style="color: #99c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">caught</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Stoughton in their frame.</span></span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUIZSrNC2I/AAAAAAAAHW8/WKXFYrdzTTY/s1600/73%253A01%253A20-Nixon-Speech-106w"><img alt="" border="0" height="274" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572369344543656802" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUIZSrNC2I/AAAAAAAAHW8/WKXFYrdzTTY/s400/73%253A01%253A20-Nixon-Speech-106w" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">This was two years after I shot Governor Bruce King’s first inauguration, January 1, 1971. I irritated the Journal’s Ray Cary and Tribune’s Al Cabral and some TV photographers after securing a safety shot from the front, as King raised his hand to his oath. I knew I could not compete with the daily papers, if I stayed where I was. My picture would have been the same old thing only days later. So I went around to the back of the podium shooting what is known as a “Hail Mary” with my camera stretched at arm’s length above my head. My camera got into the other photographer's shots. King’s wife, Alice, selected my image as “the official inaugural photograph.”</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="268" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572369824870951666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yXwCxZuIjI8/TVUI1QCJ6vI/AAAAAAAAHXE/VlGHommG05o/s400/71%253A01%253A01%2BKing%2BInaugiral%2Blighter%2Bw.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Listed as the first </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2010/01/whitehouse.html"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">civilian</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> “official” </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10325/1102183-67.stm"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">White House Photographer</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">, is </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.life.com/image/50540495"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Yoichi R. Okamoto</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> who served President Johnson from 1966.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/textual/central/smof/atkins.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Ollie Atkins</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> served as personal photographer to President Richard Nixon and Chief of the White House Photographic </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/west-wing/photo-office.htm"><span style="color: #8dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Staff</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gSV-y09h6k8/TVUJzrK_hgI/AAAAAAAAHXM/yjf5mfh2SFg/s1600/Kennerly-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572370897307665922" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gSV-y09h6k8/TVUJzrK_hgI/AAAAAAAAHXM/yjf5mfh2SFg/s1600/Kennerly-1w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/11/oregon_native_david_hume_kenne.html"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">David Hume Kennerly</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> served President Gerald Ford, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.kennerly.com/"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Kennerly</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> gave a talk at the 2000 annual National Press Photographers Association's conference in San Francisco. about winning the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Feature-Photography"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">feature photography</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> for his coverage of the Vietnam War for United Press International;</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">President Jimmy Carter had no official White House photographer;</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUzc2mdVHI/AAAAAAAAHYA/BsNMrP4slWU/s1600/Obama-RRHS-Souza_0072w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572416684727030898" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUzc2mdVHI/AAAAAAAAHYA/BsNMrP4slWU/s400/Obama-RRHS-Souza_0072w.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="367" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">current Chief White House Photographer </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/January/248.cfm"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Pete Souza</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> also </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0905/back-in-the-white-house-after-all-these-years-pete-souza.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">served</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> during Ronald Reagan’s second term, as part of a four photographer rotation;</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://store.artfxgallery.org/phdava.html"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">David Valdez</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> served Vive President, then President George H.W. Bush;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/inauguration/BobBIO.html"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Robert McNeely</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> was </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/magazine/photography/robertMcNeely/chief.shtml"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Director of White House Photography</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> serving President Bill Clinton for five and a half years and was replaced by </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1898&amp;category=ArtMakers&amp;occupation=Former%20White%20House%20Photographer&amp;name=Sharon%20Farmer"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Sharon Farmer</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">; and</span></div></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUMLuhu38I/AAAAAAAAHXU/Rq0LYx7AGKY/s1600/08%253A05%253A27-Bush-Draper_6933w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="374" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572373509548466114" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUMLuhu38I/AAAAAAAAHXU/Rq0LYx7AGKY/s400/08%253A05%253A27-Bush-Draper_6933w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.ericdraperphotography.com/"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Eric Draper</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> served as </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/draper-bio.html"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Special Assistant</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> to the President and White House Photo Director for George W. Bush. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/draper-bio.html"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Draper</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> had </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2009/06/eric-draper.html"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">unlimited</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> access to Bush; every meeting, every phone call, was photographed. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.ericdraperphotography.com/content.html?page=1"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">He</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is seen above during a Bush political visit to Albuquerque, his hometown, in 2008.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l61NxXhkFIQ/TVUn95eR71I/AAAAAAAAHXw/1w_AKTPOtGs/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-Souza_1223wb.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="330" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572404058294185810" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l61NxXhkFIQ/TVUn95eR71I/AAAAAAAAHXw/1w_AKTPOtGs/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-Souza_1223wb.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Souza, is a </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/28/Delivering-on-Change-an-Inside-Look/"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">very good photojournalist</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, with what photographers call having a “</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022604280.html?sid=ST2009022802387"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">good eye</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.”</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">However, the issue is not about Souza or the quality of his work; it is about the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.whnpa.org/join/WHNPA_WHLetter012209.pdf"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">attitude</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> of an administration claiming to be more transparent than any before in not allowing a free press to view, show and report upon what they independently observe.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">NOTE:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The above tightly cropped photograph of Souza appears to be out of focus due to a combination of slight subject movement and more camera shake. The time was 6:55 pm and sunset was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.sunrisesunset.com/calendar.asp"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">6:57 pm</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, which means most of the sun was already below the horizon. The president’s party was in the shadow of a hanger and it was getting dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This picture was taken with the camera on a mono-pod using a Reflex-Nikkor 500mm f/8 at a 1/15 second.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yet, upon close inspection you will note that Souza’s eye is in sharp focus, the result of one of the White House photo pool using a flash at the very moment my shutter was open. It becomes one of my personal series, “sharing the light.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Upon close inspection you will note that Souza’s eye is in sharp focus, the result of one of the White House photo pool using a flash at the very moment my shutter was open. It becomes one of my personal series, “sharing the light.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Though it would appear that the combination of long lens, small aperture, slow shutter speeds, would make this a near impossible shot, it wasn’t, as this accompanying picture shows, taken just a minute later 6:56 pm, at a 1/20 second.</span></div></div></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUr-W03CbI/AAAAAAAAHX4/vhAYuB-IGJ0/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1232w"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572408464220031410" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVUr-W03CbI/AAAAAAAAHX4/vhAYuB-IGJ0/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival_1232w" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Souza has the dream job, he is no longer a photojournalist, by definition, he now documents for history. He works for the nation, appointed by the president and by agreement is allowed to cover him with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/28/Delivering-on-Change-an-Inside-Look/"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">total access</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">: boundaries are left to Souza’s discretion.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is a </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291502-1"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">trust issue</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> that a photojournalist does not grant their subjects; if a president has an incident, like Ford stumbling down an airplane stairway, or hitting a spectator with his golf ball during celebrity-pro golf game, or H.W. Bush throwing up on the Japanese Prime Minister, or George W. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://spincontrol.org/national/bush_bike_accident.jpg"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Bush</span></a></span><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-w-bush-recovers-from-bicycle-accident"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">crashing</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> or falling from his </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4658327.stm"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">bicycle</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> on slippery pavement, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4690128-1.html"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">injuring</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> a Scottish police constable, an official photograph is unlikely to be made available. A photojournalist’s coverage may be published as news, in reporting on the continued health of the presidents or their injuring people through their actions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVU976nuFeI/AAAAAAAAHYI/ZSIwy_QLkIs/s1600/73-Domenici-Lunch-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="273" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572428213498287586" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVU976nuFeI/AAAAAAAAHYI/ZSIwy_QLkIs/s400/73-Domenici-Lunch-1w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was granted trust and access when I did a “fly on the wall” </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2009/01/saint-pete.html"><span style="color: #90c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">photo essay</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in 1973, of then rookie U.S. Senator Pete Domenici. It wasn’t total access, and he was concerned when I photographed him with a drink in his hand, because constituents on the east side of the state did not know he drank. I told him I didn’t know if he was drinking liquor or ice water and if his constituents found out, then they found out. Until now I never revealed that this had been an issue for Domenici. I have it on good authority, from one who was closely involved in east side Republican politics that Domenici regularly drank with his major campaign contributors. It clearly wasn’t an issue for his east side constituents as he was reelected five more times by substantial margins.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>Despite not being able to gain access to closed GOP caucus meetings or the 1973 secret briefing from National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger on the Vietnam War, Domenici made himself and his family available to my photography.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVU-XPXT9mI/AAAAAAAAHYQ/Wa_qhX44pUE/s1600/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-Chuck-Kennedy_1008w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="269" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572428682923079266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TVU-XPXT9mI/AAAAAAAAHYQ/Wa_qhX44pUE/s400/10%253A09%253A27-Obama-Arrival-Chuck-Kennedy_1008w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Souza shadows the president as Assistant Deputy of the White House Photo Office </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.finaledit.org/portfolio.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Chuck Kennedy</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, above and below, shadows Souza.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zPAvNhWEKb8/TVXC1r2gqsI/AAAAAAAAHZY/55WNVxtqHLQ/s1600/09%253A05%253A14-Obama-Kennedy_2021w"><img alt="" border="0" height="220" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572574341501070018" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zPAvNhWEKb8/TVXC1r2gqsI/AAAAAAAAHZY/55WNVxtqHLQ/s400/09%253A05%253A14-Obama-Kennedy_2021w" style="cursor: move; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>Kennedy's role, is wingman to Souza. While Souza is in close, Kennedy opts for different angles, as he did here during President Obama's visit to Rio Rancho High School. Kennedy photographed from a balcony where no one else was allowed by the Secret Service.<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kennedy may be best known for his </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.finaledit.org/detail.html?folio=&amp;gallery=Inside%20Washington&amp;sortNumber=29&amp;skipno=27"><span style="color: #96c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">2009 inaugural photo</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> the Obama family during the swearing in taken for the McClatchy/Tribune family of newspapers.&nbsp; Kennedy's role, is wingman to Souza.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>I received two messages from the White House Media Affairs Office (combined):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">RSVP CONFIRMATION: Air Force One Arrival (and Departure):</blockquote><blockquote>Thanks for your RSVP to the Arrival (and Departure) of Air Force One in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The names your outlet submitted for credentials have been confirmed. Be sure to bring a government issued photo ID for entry and note the times below you must be on site for access.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Though I am not eligible to be a member of the </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.whnpa.org/"><span style="color: #99c5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">White House News Photographers Association</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, because one has to live within 40 miles of the White House, I support their code of ethics.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In WHNPA’s Constitution Article III Codes of Ethics (Revised 2005) preamble statement of ethics:<o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The White House News Photographers Association, a professional organization dedicated to the support of photojournalism and to ensure the rights of its members in the performance of their duties, strongly believes in the public's natural and legal right to freedom in searching for the truth and the right to be accurately and completely informed about the world in which we live. We believe that there is a direct linkage between the survival of a democratic society and an accurate and free press. To that end, we believe that the public journal is a public trust and that all connected with it are to the full measure of their responsibility trustees for the public. We believe that motion and still pictures are an indispensable means of informing people about their world. We strongly urge and expect our members to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct in serving the public interest. To that end, all WHNPA members must aspire to the following code of ethics:</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://www.whnpa.org/join/bylaws.pdf"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to read the eight points of ethics that apply well beyond White House news photographers, applying equally to other photographers and journalists of all media. I also support the codes of ethics of two organizations to which I do belong: the </span><a href="http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp"><span style="color: #93c5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Society of Professional Journalists</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and the </span><a href="http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/business_practices/ethics.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Press Photographers Association</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><o:p></o:p></div><img alt="" border="0" height="8" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s640/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" width="640" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001bed; font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is_21.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Prologue</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_914417013"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part One: Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez’ June 10, 2010 visit to Conspiracy Brews,</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-who-gets.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Martinez August 11, 2010, Education Reform Press conference</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Two: August 11, 2010, Albuquerque Public School’s Communications department</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/part-three-august-19-2010-aps-2010.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Three: August 19, 2010, APS 2010 Gubernatorial Education Debate.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_27.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Four: August 22, 2010 request to Democratic nominee for Lt. Gov. Brian Colõn for assistance getting placed back on the campaign’s media list.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_30.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Five: Mayor Richard Berry’s ABQ View Press Conference</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Six: August 25, 2010, APS Audit committee</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_03.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Seven September 1, 2010 APS Board</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-ispart.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Eight September 11, 2010 firefighters</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_199694538"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part Nine: September 13, 2010, Cangiolosi</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_11.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part 10 September 20, 2010 MacQuigg Unilaterally Taking Up the Debate</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_17.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Part 11 September 23, 2010, APS IPRA</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial;">Part 12 September 26, 2010, Congregation Albert gubernatorial debate</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" height="8" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s640/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" width="640" /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24946442-7425633632905176515?l=mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-13679490528418016552012-01-27T19:02:00.002-07:002012-01-28T10:00:15.854-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">September 26, 2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ched MacQuigg and I went to cover Congregation Albert’s gubernatorial debate and ran into a brick wall.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594408827735142882" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DwGvSkhN4XM/TaNVMDl2ceI/AAAAAAAAINg/FX2ei8zovl4/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate_1057w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 277px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were met by several official greeters at the front door. Upon seeing our camera equipment, asked if we were press and directed us to a side door being used as the media entrance.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594409135318890946" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BlcMNeOHoUI/TaNVd9bh-cI/AAAAAAAAINo/uO9cqRQ-41E/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate-Hallinan_1048w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 285px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Democratic Party of New Mexico Press Secretary James Hallinan blocked the side door and said there was an authorized media list that the Congregation Albert's Brotherhood group put together and sent us around to the front door again.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The official greeters for the Brotherhood said that there was an "official" list, but they hadn't generated it, the campaigns did.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rick Nathanson stepped forward and said bloggers were not on the list; he invited us in, but not with our cameras.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contrary to any journalistic creed, MacQuigg and I decided to go listen.</span></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">We dumped the equipment in the vehicle, but the doors were closed when we returned moments later because it was 11 am. Nathanson had gone back into the building without informing the doormen of what he had told us.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594416649594631586" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evWWNhpo_aM/TaNcTWSedaI/AAAAAAAAIOw/hDolYFoxOQ8/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate_0824w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 233px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spoke with Congregation Albert's Administrator Paula Hollonger (above, right, speaking with MacQuigg) about not having gotten through their automated phone system late in the week.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reason: Thursday was the end of the Jewish High Holy Days. She said that there had been such a deluge of phone calls that with the pressure to set up for the debate the recorded phone calls had not been listened to.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg and I waited until the debate finished.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Bloggers were not allowed,” </span><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/contact.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nathanson</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, who is an Albuquerque Journal Staff Feature Writer, a Brotherhood member, and the holder of the "official" media list, said after the event. He had the list and was going to show it to us, but when I raised my camera, he wouldn’t show it to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg and I engaged Nathanson in the first amendment debate; he obviously never had it before. Stopped in his tracks, he had a lot to think about; the difference between his "press organization" and a journalistically based blogger, which he was willing to differentiate from his initial stated bias that “bloggers are ‘all’ opinion based -- therefore can't be journalists,” theory. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nathanson, as a journalist and church leader makes the same mistake that the various government public information officers make in regards to the First Amendment. They interpose the word "journalist" where the words "freedom of speech or of the press" are found in the First Amendment. Nathanson, the PIOs and many others don't want a free press to include those who publish or post on the internet to be included in the protections of the First Amendment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The Brotherhood was forced to make a concession in order to make this event happen,” Nathanson said, blaming the list on the campaigns.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594409673363257778" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m2FUzL2s4Yg/TaNV9RzTebI/AAAAAAAAINw/a5qDIj1xLq4/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate-Cangiolosi-Nikolewski_0896w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 396px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Let them all in; it was not the Martinez camp,” who insisted on restricting coverage,&nbsp;said&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martinez’ Campaign Manager Ryan Cangiolosi, above left with </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-nikolewski/6/25a/17b"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob Nikolewski</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’ve done everything I can to help you, but it is out of my control.” Democratic lt. gov. nominee Brian Colõn said.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594410202241440466" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U35OPBRSxwQ/TaNWcEBsGtI/AAAAAAAAIN4/QmrmCZ0kk_o/s640/10%253A09%253A26-Debate-Colon_0899w.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="311" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When asked if he was running his campaign, he said, “no.” It seems “you have burned your bridges with everyone,” Colõn said.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bloggers were allowed in. Nikolewski, Editor of </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.capitolreportnewmexico.com/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Capitol Report New Mexico</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> told me he got in as media. However, he took no pictures.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary Ellen Brodrick of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/democracy_for_new_mexico/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Democracy for New Mexico</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> also got in, though she may not have been recognized in her role as a blogger. She also took no pictures inside because she was seated in the audience, not on press row.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594410217927837874" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BAE-k2dpNjk/TaNWc-dniLI/AAAAAAAAIOA/coIeT3FRp4g/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate-Dems_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 205px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attorney General Gary King, State Treasurer James Lewis, and former Oklahoma U.S. Senator Fred Harris.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594410225659904978" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aEXpbiim4dM/TaNWdbRFg9I/AAAAAAAAIOI/Gzyf0Ja09tk/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate-GOP_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 214px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former New Mexico Governor David Cargo, State Rep. Larry Larranaga, and State GOP Chairman Harvey Yates Jr.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594410774055939826" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHk2B4uMOTE/TaNW9WM47vI/AAAAAAAAIOQ/zhAmAtzLN1I/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate-Press_w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 187px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Associated Press Barry Massey, KNAW FM General Manager, former City Councillor and outgoing County Commissioner Michael Brasher, and Albuquerque Journal Photographer Adolphe Pierre-Louis.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594411269619371906" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DOqnV77aNeE/TaNXaMUaz4I/AAAAAAAAIOY/q_e8hqJOqfk/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate_0848w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 306px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">State Sen. John Ryan, (R) Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties, talks with Martinez’ Field Operations Director Adam Deguire as the debate ends.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594411277716466050" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J2XW3D8Y_Gc/TaNXaqe6qYI/AAAAAAAAIOg/jNWGsBmLmAM/s400/10%253A09%253A26-Debate_0925wa.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 291px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Democratic Party Chairman Zavier Gonzales talks on his cell phone, as he is one of the last to leave Congregation Albert.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"></span></span><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg would post on Sunday, September 26, 2010:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/hallinan-will-neither-confirm-nor-deny.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hallinan will neither confirm nor deny</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg wrote:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked Denish Spokesman James Hallinan to either confirm or deny that he had sent a slanderous e-mail to APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta claiming that I called him one of Denish's "evil henchmen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hallinan’s exact words in reply as part of a forwarded e-mail exchange, attached to an e-mail to Janice Arnold-Jones from Armenta, were:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for everything and for being so accommodating. You and your team did an amazing job! I know Diane will be getting in touch with you all as well to express her gratitude. Ched is something else. He has blogged about me several times too and even called me Diane's evil henchman! I agree with everything you said about him, he is certainly irrational and dangerous. Sorry he caused problems, but last night was a huge success! Thanks, James<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A check of MacQuigg’s blog Diogenes' Six, will find only one reference to Hallinan being Diane's evil henchman!, it is in the post, Hallinan will neither confirm nor deny, made more than a week after Hallinan’s e-mail.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594412455293553682" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Wz2J45mkxA/TaNYfNTLDBI/AAAAAAAAIOo/XTiKFnv_lcc/s1600/Denish_2305w.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/02/lt-governors-office-ignores-legitimate.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posted</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a story about e-mailing Hallinan three times requesting being placed on the Denish campaign press advisory mailing list. He received no response from Hallinan. MacQuigg wrote:</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until I am convinced otherwise, I hold Lt Governor Diane Denish, here seen promising New Mexicans a Sunshine Portal on state government, personally responsible for the hiding of Media Advisories from "opposition" media.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I see no reason to suppose that a Denish Roundhouse would behave any differently.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looks like the Democrats this time; didn't get it totally nailed down.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Hallinan's comment that it was the Brotherhood, and Nathanson blaming it on the campaigns, the only ones to say they hadn't been involved with the list are the Republicans.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Thank you for your e-mail, however I am denying your request. Please feel free to visit the candidates' websites for more information,” was Hallinan’s curt response to my prior request to be put on the campaigns media advisory list.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://twitter.com/JamesHallinan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hallinan</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s mere presence, his physically blocking door, his denying media access and coverage at a “open” public event, the message he delivered, that there was an official media list produced by the Brotherhood, and the campaigns had nothing to do with establishing who was on the list, while Nathanson blamed its creation on the campaigns, and Cangiolosi insisting, “it was not the Martinez camp,” restricting coverage, confirms MacQuigg’s allegation, even if he never made it, – Hallinan is Diane's evil henchman! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The obvious question has to be, who’s running the show? Did Congregation Albert extend the invitation to simply allow the campaigns to dictate the terms of how the debate would take place? Campaigns have gotten into the habit of thinking that everybody serves them, when in fact the democratic process of election campaigning is one of the candidates seeking a job from the citizenry. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if Congregation Albert or any other hosting organization simply said, your welcome to come, the public and media are also welcome to join our congregation, here’s how it will work.... If one or both campaigns throw a fit and one or both candidates back out, so be it. If only one backs, out hold an empty chair debate. Let the public see what kind of openness the candidate are willing to display.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“No,” Colõn said, when I asked if he was running his own campaign? The important part of his answer was he had no influence over the campaign staff. It has to make one wonder, just who is going to make the decisions if he got elected into office.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I had written Colõn suggesting, “An open campaign is usually a sign of a future open government, while a closed campaign is almost a sure sign of a closed administration.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" height="8" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s640/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" width="640" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times-Roman; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is_21.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Prologue</span></span></a></span></span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_914417013"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part One: Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez’ June 10, 2010 visit to Conspiracy Brews,</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-who-gets.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Martinez August 11, 2010, Education Reform Press conference</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Two: August 11, 2010, Albuquerque Public School’s Communications department</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/part-three-august-19-2010-aps-2010.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Three: August 19, 2010, APS 2010 Gubernatorial Education Debate.</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_27.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Four: August 22, 2010 request to Democratic nominee for Lt. Gov. Brian Colõn for assistance getting placed back on the campaign’s media list.</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_30.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Five: Mayor Richard Berry’s ABQ View Press Conference</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Six: August 25, 2010, APS Audit committee</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_03.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Seven September 1, 2010 APS Board</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-ispart.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Eight September 11, 2010 firefighters</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_199694538"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Nine: September 13, 2010, Cangiolosi</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_11.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 10 September 20, 2010 MacQuigg Unilaterally Taking Up the Debate</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><a href="http://www.mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_17.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 11 September 23, 2010, APS IPRA</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" height="8" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s640/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" width="640" /></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24946442-1367949052841801655?l=mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-13810261581223092312012-01-17T17:26:00.001-07:002012-01-27T20:23:35.948-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592814838579819682" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kIUciH76NCY/TZ2rdrQVdKI/AAAAAAAAIME/gqLh4dFOghw/s640/APS_0112w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 265px;" width="424" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001bed; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday, September 23, 2010, Ched MacQuigg and I went to the APS Twin Towers, now known officially as the Alice and Bruce King Educational Complex, 6400 Uptown NE to inspect the public records we had individually requested.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within moments of arriving at the communications office, MacQuigg was accosted by three APS police officers; Acting Deputy Chief Steve Gallegos, Lt. Allen Rider and Officer Paul Cadena who came into the office and confronted him.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When they opened the door, it blocked their view of me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They asked, if he was banned from APS property?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg responded, no, that he was only banned from the school board meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They continued to challenge him until I stepped in and said I had read the letter and the ban only applied to the board’s meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMbdxA3HJDQ/TViG4OWmeEI/AAAAAAAAHbw/qdJ5lInvWZQ/s1600/APS_0812w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573352839354677314" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMbdxA3HJDQ/TViG4OWmeEI/AAAAAAAAHbw/qdJ5lInvWZQ/s400/APS_0812w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 296px;" /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They seemed surprised at seeing me, and then agitated as they left the room without saying anything to me.</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what’s wrong with this picture?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2CRrHvIlcR4/TxSvMgauuvI/AAAAAAAAI5k/BL_5SmHCZbc/s1600/10%253A09%253A01-MacQuigg-APS-Tellez_0344w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2CRrHvIlcR4/TxSvMgauuvI/AAAAAAAAI5k/BL_5SmHCZbc/s400/10%253A09%253A01-MacQuigg-APS-Tellez_0344w.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></span></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2CRrHvIlcR4/TxSvMgauuvI/AAAAAAAAI5k/BL_5SmHCZbc/s1600/10%253A09%253A01-MacQuigg-APS-Tellez_0344w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>When MacQuigg was given the Esquivel letter by Acting Director Tellez, Tellez told me, I was allowed to enter. However, I met adamant resistance from Acting APS Deputy Chief Gallegos, below right, and when confronted by Lt. Rider, both indicated I could not enter the boardroom. Albeit mistaken, they believed I had also received a letter similar to the Esquivel/Tellez letter that MacQuigg received, also banning me. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GHiIlIQs8-w/TxSvx4v2yXI/AAAAAAAAI5s/T4TiBEkLGyg/s1600/10%253A09%253A01-APS-Tellez_0373w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GHiIlIQs8-w/TxSvx4v2yXI/AAAAAAAAI5s/T4TiBEkLGyg/s400/10%253A09%253A01-APS-Tellez_0373w.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received no such letter, but Tellez, above, was of no mood to correct the misperceptions of his subordinates. He also closed the door on me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple weeks later, Sep. 23, 2010, Gallegos, Rider and Officer P. Cadena confronted MacQuigg when we went to the APS Communications office to review documents requested under the inspections of public records act, it was clear that they believed that MacQuigg was on the premises in violation of the contents of the Esquivel/Tellez letter. It was just as clear that none of them had read the letter or understood what it actually contained.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The biggest problem is that the APS Police Department, as a system, has exercised what looks like law enforcement, on its face, but in reality it is denying citizens their fundamental civil rights. MacQuigg has characterized them as a </span><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/473662/Praetorian-Guard"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Praetorian Guard</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, designed to </span><a href="http://www.unrv.com/military/praetorian-guard.php"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">protect those who govern</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> rather than those they are sworn to protect and serve, the citizens or those who are clients of the school system.</span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In addition to theright to act as the press, to observe, and report to our fellow citizens, onhow government operates; our rights to speak, gather, associate, and petitiongovernment have been quashed. Instead of accommodating us, there is asystematic effort to deprive us of access to what are required by law to beopen meetings and quick access to public records.</span></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8LJD5mdTrhA/TxU8qjsb5LI/AAAAAAAAI6U/jzMCG4hl-TI/s1600/Monica-Armenta-5w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8LJD5mdTrhA/TxU8qjsb5LI/AAAAAAAAI6U/jzMCG4hl-TI/s1600/Monica-Armenta-5w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8LJD5mdTrhA/TxU8qjsb5LI/AAAAAAAAI6U/jzMCG4hl-TI/s1600/Monica-Armenta-5w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8LJD5mdTrhA/TxU8qjsb5LI/AAAAAAAAI6U/jzMCG4hl-TI/s1600/Monica-Armenta-5w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8LJD5mdTrhA/TxU8qjsb5LI/AAAAAAAAI6U/jzMCG4hl-TI/s400/Monica-Armenta-5w.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8LJD5mdTrhA/TxU8qjsb5LI/AAAAAAAAI6U/jzMCG4hl-TI/s1600/Monica-Armenta-5w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">APS CommunicationsExecutive Director Monica Armenta, above, has on more than one occasion stated orwritten that the New Mexico State Police issue media credentials, implying thatsuch credentials would be acceptable to her, but it's not true.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is nogovernment issued credential.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">From the August 28th, 2009, updated New Mexico State Police&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.dps.nm.org/newsReleases/NMSP/2004/NMSPnewsMediaGuide_2004.pdf"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">News Media Guide</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Media Credentials</span></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News outlets are encouraged to provide media credentials for their staff members covering incidents or events involving the State Police. Media credentials may be requested for access to an incident scene. During your on-scene investigation your cooperation is appreciated, in consideration of the many tasks and responsibilities placed on our personnel at the scene of an incident.</span></blockquote></blockquote><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LEf1et5_BF4/TViwEIWkLkI/AAAAAAAAHcA/e3tOvYNUPEI/s1600/1978-APD-News-ID-Card-w.jpg"><span style="color: #001bed; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvfD_VNWTEM/TViHxoNoP4I/AAAAAAAAHb4/3T99aLsW-iU/s1600/Stover_Fenton-1w.jpg"><span style="color: #001bed; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></a></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LEf1et5_BF4/TViwEIWkLkI/AAAAAAAAHcA/e3tOvYNUPEI/s1600/1978-APD-News-ID-Card-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573398123879083586" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LEf1et5_BF4/TViwEIWkLkI/AAAAAAAAHcA/e3tOvYNUPEI/s400/1978-APD-News-ID-Card-w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 257px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvfD_VNWTEM/TViHxoNoP4I/AAAAAAAAHb4/3T99aLsW-iU/s1600/Stover_Fenton-1w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573353825548910466" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvfD_VNWTEM/TViHxoNoP4I/AAAAAAAAHb4/3T99aLsW-iU/s320/Stover_Fenton-1w.jpg" style="cursor: move; float: right; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; width: 263px;" /></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I worked in the Albuquerque Police Department’s Public Information office of Police Chief Bob Stover, left, in 1979, I helped then PIO Robert Fenton, right, with whom I had worked in the early ‘70s at the Albuquerque News, in rewriting the media credentials section on press relations for the Department’s Standard Operating Procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I convinced Fenton that government should not attempt to determine, define or classify who the press is.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The SOP has been updated and revised making police-press-citizen communication and observation more allowable.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The department now also allows personnel to disseminate factual information they have to the press within their direct knowledge. There are some legal and practical exceptions: when a senior officer or PIO is on scene to deal with the media, or the release of the names of victims may be withheld pending notification of next of kin.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LOBY-6btBUc/Tw0V9UfieZI/AAAAAAAAI5M/MkWij4-LAHM/s1600/1-31w-Onlookers-Policy-APDG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LOBY-6btBUc/Tw0V9UfieZI/AAAAAAAAI5M/MkWij4-LAHM/s400/1-31w-Onlookers-Policy-APDG.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The department’s rights of </span><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2008/06/apd-sop-rights-of-onlookers.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">onlookers policy</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> section prohibits officers from banning the press or any citizen from events of public interest and to allow recordings by photo, video or audio devices, except for a very few specific incidents. (Click on any image to enlarge.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Officers sometimes choose to stretch the limits of the onlookers’ policy expanding their scene to exclude citizens from being able to watch them. Such officers are derelict in their duty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many officers have learned “Magic Words” that they use thinking they grant them power to disregard the citizens’ right to observe how their taxes are being expended. The first magic words, “Officer Safety,” officers will throw that phrase around as an excuse to exclude the watchful gaze of the public; the second magic words, "Public Safety."&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Armenta has used APS Police to escort her to her car and to shield her from television news crews when she decides not to answer their questions about breaking news or controversial issues.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MORE RECENTLY:</span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When MacQuigg requests inspection of public records from APS, his inquiry seems to be run through a bureaucratic gauntlet based upon a tortured reading of the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oMcraGvBJ7c/TxUZC_FyYPI/AAAAAAAAI58/2fWPlaHHbOU/s1600/11%253A01%253A13-APS-Candidate-Forum-1w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"></span></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oMcraGvBJ7c/TxUZC_FyYPI/AAAAAAAAI58/2fWPlaHHbOU/s1600/11%253A01%253A13-APS-Candidate-Forum-1w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="241" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oMcraGvBJ7c/TxUZC_FyYPI/AAAAAAAAI58/2fWPlaHHbOU/s400/11%253A01%253A13-APS-Candidate-Forum-1w.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are usually met by APS&nbsp;Patrol/Transport Service Aides,&nbsp;Security Aide Merlinda Chavez, who signs us in, directs us to the Communications office, then calls APS Police headquarters, alerting &nbsp;them of our presence. Usually ranking officers, who are in the building are dispatched to check on us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DT11oQzls4k/TxUuWPK6lzI/AAAAAAAAI6E/4szK6KB4B9I/s1600/11%253A12%253A02-APS-MacQuigg-L1000253w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DT11oQzls4k/TxUuWPK6lzI/AAAAAAAAI6E/4szK6KB4B9I/s400/11%253A12%253A02-APS-MacQuigg-L1000253w.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During our most recent visit, Dec. 2, 2011,&nbsp;Lt. Karl Overmyer after MacQuigg had called&nbsp;Public Records&nbsp;Custodian Rigo Chavez that we were coming to collect copies.&nbsp;Overmyer, above right reflected in an elevator mirror, was at the front desk,&nbsp;escorted us to the office.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">MacQuigg offered toopen a prepaid account, like is done at many governmental records offices, suchas the Albuquerque Police and Bernalillo County Sheriff's Departmentscentralized records center, for the convenience of lawyers, insurance adjustersand the likes.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The inspection ofPublic Records Act was updated to provide for a written response in the sametechnology as requested. by letter if requested by letter, Fax, if requested byfax, and electronically, if requested electronically.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The statutory cost ofmaking a copy machine copies only applies to those physical copies. If therecords requested are, or ever were in, an electronic form, then providing themvia the internet or by fax has no statutory cost associated with it. The lawprohibits research and administrative cost to be assessed to providing therecords.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rigo Chavez goes outof his way to avoid using available technology to attempt to force thoseseeking records the greatest inconvenience in an effort to dissuade them frommaking requests.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He rarely, if everhas delivered a record that is even immediately available to him even withinthe three-day response time. Chavez will acknowledge receipt of the request onthe third working day and say he will deliver the document(s) within the 15calendar days allowed by law.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">MacQuigg filed acomplaint through the SilentWhistle program, citing in part, reasons for notrequiring physical presence to inspect the records requested:<o:p></o:p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... This insistence flies in the face of at least three legitimate contra-indicators, anyone of which compels his surrender of the documents under different conditions;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I show up at Chavez' office, it will count as showing up to APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta's office. She has accused me of "showing up in her office everyday" and "stalking" her. I have no assurance from anyone that if I go to Chavez' office, Armenta will not continue to misconstrue the facts to try substantiate her slander and libel. In truth, I have never gone to Rigo Chavez' office except at his insistence.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I show up at Chavez' office, there is every likelihood that I will be harassed by the Albuquerque Public Schools Police Department who are enforcing an illegal restraining order at the behest of Board Member Marty Esquivel. I have no assurance from anyone, that if I go to Chavez' office, APS' publicly funded, private police force (their Praetorian Guard) will not try to provoke a confrontation.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I show up at Chavez' office, it will aggravate disability that is recognized under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Chavez is aware of the claim and insists that he has the authority to evaluate the extent of, and then deny, my disability....</span></li></ol></blockquote></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The SilentWhistle program administrator responded:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Chavez has been directed to provide your public records request electronically. Thank you for using Ethical Advocate and for your patience in the receiving the delayed response. This issue is now closed.</span></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 24px;">However, Rigo Chavez has not complied with the directions of the SilentWhistle program administrator.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The history of APS publicrecords custodian turning over all the documents requested is hardly stellar.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am in possession ofpartial thread of communications that Armenta had with then Democratic Party ofNew Mexico’s Communications Director James Hallinan about the Aug. 19, 2010,APS Gubernatorial Education Debate, which were not surrendered.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There are several otherrequests for documents, which might prove embarrassing or problematic to thehigher levels of the APS leadership that have not been released.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is_21.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Prologue</span></span></a></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_914417013"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part One: Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez’ June 10, 2010 visit to Conspiracy Brews,</span></span></a>&nbsp;<a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-who-gets.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Martinez August 11, 2010, Education Reform Press conference</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Two: August 11, 2010, Albuquerque Public School’s Communications department</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/part-three-august-19-2010-aps-2010.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Three: August 19, 2010, APS 2010 Gubernatorial Education Debate.</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_27.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Four: August 22, 2010 request to Democratic nominee for Lt. Gov. Brian Colõn for assistance getting placed back on the campaign’s media list.</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_30.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Five: Mayor Richard Berry’s ABQ View Press Conference</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Six: August 25, 2010, APS Audit committee</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_03.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Seven September 1, 2010 APS Board</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-ispart.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Eight September 11, 2010 firefighters</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_199694538"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part Nine: September 13, 2010, Cangiolosi</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-gets-to-decide-whom-media-is-part_11.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Part 10 September 20, 2010 MacQuigg Unilaterally Taking Up the Debate</span></a></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24946442-1381026158122309231?l=mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-64704572845116591082012-01-10T12:00:00.007-07:002012-01-19T00:21:06.317-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s Wrong With This Picture?</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hb7TOE7XyaA/TwcVDWYCASI/AAAAAAAAI1s/kKgHputVPbM/s1600/Gardner+Hufman-Ramirez-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="312" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hb7TOE7XyaA/TwcVDWYCASI/AAAAAAAAI1s/kKgHputVPbM/s400/Gardner+Hufman-Ramirez-1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ADVANCE NOTE:</span></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since writing this post, City of Albuquerque Director of Communications Chris Huffman-Ramirez, above right, has left the administration of Mayor Richard Berry and is now a general assignment </span><a href="http://www.KOB.com/article/stories/S2329124.shtml?cat=535"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reporter</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> at KOB TV Eyewitness News. A former Republican political operative, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_199694527"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dayna&nbsp;Crawford</span></span></a><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dayna-crawford-gardner/7/b44/560"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;Gardner</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, left, has replaced Huffman-Ramirez as director of communications. No administrative philosophical change in attitude about who the press or who are journalists accompanied the switch.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">September 20, 2010</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6XcSJ9Cr1bU/Te40VhUF8TI/AAAAAAAAIks/zwStkxiS3p8/s1600/11%253A01%253A18-MacQuigg_1774w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615483329702129970" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6XcSJ9Cr1bU/Te40VhUF8TI/AAAAAAAAIks/zwStkxiS3p8/s400/11%253A01%253A18-MacQuigg_1774w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 265px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ched MacQuigg unilaterally took up my cause on his site </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diogenes' Six</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of not getting an adequate response from Mayor Berry's public information officers, without my asking him to do so. Though I had no problem with his raising the issues; I also provided him access to my photo archive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reS9yKMrtnc/TYsC2UFti4I/AAAAAAAAH9g/IagZtMV0paA/s1600/10%253A03%253A29-ABQ-Berry_1769w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587562894812089218" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reS9yKMrtnc/TYsC2UFti4I/AAAAAAAAH9g/IagZtMV0paA/s400/10%253A03%253A29-ABQ-Berry_1769w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 291px;" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg wrote a number of postings about Mayor Berry, above and City PIOs:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, September 20, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/berrys-integrity-stained-by-aide.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry's integrity stained by aide</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, September 20, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/berry-points-to-two-bad-apples.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry points to two bad apples</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, September 21, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/berrys-credibility-undermined.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry's credibility seriously undermined</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, September 21, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-pio-disappointment.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More PIO disappointment</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, September 27, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/lets-stop-beating-around-bush-who-is.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's stop beating around the bush; who decides, who is "the press"?</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, September 27, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-am-i-standing-alone.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why am I standing alone?</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, September 28, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-amendment-doesnt-recognize.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First Amendment doesn't recognize "journalists"</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, November 17, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/mayor-berry-questions-about.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mayor Berry says, questions about transparency are "ridiculous"</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, November 19, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/berry-disses-bloggers.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry disses bloggers</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, November 20, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/pios-dont-get-to-ask-questions.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PIOs don't get to ask questions</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, November 29, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/berry-stilling-hiding-from-press.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry still hiding from the press</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, December 05, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/12/journal-happy-with-their-access-to.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Journal happy with their access to Berry Administration; bloggers, not so much</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, December 05, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/12/journal-coverage-v-blog-coverage.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Journal coverage v blog coverage</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, December 08, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/12/pio-pledge.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PIO pledge</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Thursday, December 09, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/12/county-spending-620k-so-someone-can.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">County spending $620K "... so someone can avoid accountability"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, February 06, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/02/darren-white-show.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Darren White Show</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, April 05, 2010, </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/04/berrys-reaction-to-forensic-audit-of.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry's reaction to "forensic audit" of city government</span></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, September 20, 2010, </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/berry-points-to-two-bad-apples.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry points to two bad apples</span></span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, September 20, 2010, </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/berrys-integrity-stained-by-aide.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry's integrity stained by aide</span></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, September 21, 2010, </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/berrys-credibility-undermined.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry's credibility seriously undermined</span></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, September 21, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-pio-disappointment.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More PIO disappointment</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, November 17, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/mayor-berry-questions-about.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mayor Berry says, questions about transparency are "ridiculous"</span></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, November 19, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/berry-disses-bloggers.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry disses bloggers</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, November 20, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/pios-dont-get-to-ask-questions.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PIOs don't get to ask questions</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, November 29, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/11/berry-stilling-hiding-from-press.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry still hiding from the press</span></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, December 05, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/12/journal-coverage-v-blog-coverage.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Journal coverage v blog coverage</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, December 05, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/12/journal-happy-with-their-access-to.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Journal happy with their access to Berry Administration; bloggers, not so much</span></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, December 08, 2010, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2010/12/pio-pledge.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PIO pledge</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, January 19, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/01/martinez-bloggers-and-establishment.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martinez, bloggers, and the establishment "press"</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, February 18, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/02/no-confidence-in-darren-white.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No confidence in Darren White</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, March 12, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/03/was-tj-fired-for-letting-truth-slip.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was TJ fired for telling the truth?</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday, June 23, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/06/darren-who.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Darren who?</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday, June 23, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/06/huffman-ramirez-refuses-to-put-it-in.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez refuses to put it in writing</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday, June 23, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/06/waiting-for-my-phone-call.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waiting for our phone call</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, July 05, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/07/whats-with-berrys-lack-of-respect-for.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's with Berry's lack of respect for the press?</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, July 13, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/07/huffman-ramirez-arrogance-growing.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez arrogance growing</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, July 18, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-huffman-ramirez-going-down.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is Huffman-Ramirez going down?</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, August 17, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/08/whos-cowardice-is-it-berrys-or-huffman.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who's cowardice is it; Berry's or Huffman-Ramirez'</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday, October 03, 2011, </span><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/10/berrys-credibility-takes-hit.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry's credibility takes a hit</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday, October 06, 2011,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/2011/10/berry-spins-his-asshanding.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry spins his ass-handing</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacQuigg exchanged a series of e-mails with Director of Communications Chris Huffman-Ramirez about the Fire PIO identification issue.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez wrote that MacQuigg could freely express his opinions on his blogspot.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what’s wrong with this picture?</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In MacQuigg’s series of e-mails exchanges with Chris Huffman-Ramirez about PIOs responding to requests, wrote he could freely express his opinions on his blogspot, but Huffman-Ramirez would respond to real journalists not bloggers and for MacQuigg to:</span></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... leave news reporting to the professionals who have been trained and educated to do so.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I disagree with Huffman-Ramirez’s assertion that MacQuigg is not entitled to be considered a member of the press or media. The words are synonymous, the online thesaurus for press starts with the example: Freedom of the press, The MEDIA.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s look at Press as defined in the online </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/press"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merriam-Webster Dictionary</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definition of PRESS</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
6</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a: printing press</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b: the act or the process of printing&nbsp;</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c: a printing or publishing establishment</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a: the gathering and publishing or broadcasting of news : journalism</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b: newspapers, periodicals, and often radio and television news broadcasting</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c: news reporters, publishers, and broadcasters</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">d: comment or notice in newspapers and periodicals</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s look at Media as defined in the online&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/media?show=1&amp;t=1290255850"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merriam-Webster Dictionary</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">media noun, often attributive</span></blockquote></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">plural me·di·as</span></blockquote></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definition of MEDIA</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1: a medium of cultivation, conveyance, or expression; especially: medium</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2a: &nbsp;a singular or plural in construction : mass media</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 b: plural : members of the mass media</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usage Discussion of MEDIA</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The singular media and its plural medias seem to have originated in the field of advertising over 70 years ago; they are still so used without stigma in that specialized field. In most other applications media is used as a plural of medium. The popularity of the word in references to the agencies of mass communication is leading to the formation of a mass noun, construed as a singular there's no basis for it. You know, the news media gets on to something —&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Meese"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edwin Meese 3d</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;the media is less interested in the party's policies — James Lewis, Guardian Weekly. This use is not as well established as the mass-noun use of data and is likely to incur criticism especially in writing.</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">plural of medium</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">media event noun</span></blockquote></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definition of MEDIA EVENT:</span></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a publicity event staged for coverage by the news media Examples of MEDIA EVENT</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The President's visit to the school was a major media event.</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">social media noun pl but singular or pl in construction</span></blockquote></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definition of SOCIAL MEDIA:</span></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)</span></blockquote></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mass medium noun</span></blockquote></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">plural mass media</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definition of MASS MEDIUM:</span></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a medium of communication (as newspapers, radio, or television) that is designed to reach the mass of the people —usually used in plural</span></blockquote></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 me·di·um noun \ˈmē-dē-əm\</span></blockquote></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">plural mediums or me·dia</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definition of MEDIUM</span></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 a: something in a middle position</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;b: a middle condition or degree: MEAN</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2: a means of effecting or conveying something: as&nbsp;a</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1): a substance regarded as the means of transmission of a force or effect</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2): a surrounding or enveloping substance</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(3): the tenuous material (as gas and dust) in space that exists outside large agglomerations of matter (as stars)</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b: plural usually media</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1): a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment — compare MASS MEDIUM</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2): &nbsp;a publication or broadcast that carries advertising</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(3): &nbsp;a mode of artistic expression or communication</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(4): something (as a magnetic disk) on which information may be stored</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c: go-between, intermediary</span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">d: plural mediums : an individual held to be a channel of communication between the earthly world and a world of spirits</span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e: material or technical means of artistic expression…</span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definition of REPORT&nbsp;</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">transitive verb
1</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a: to give an account of : relate</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b: to describe as being in a specified state</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a : to serve as carrier of (a message)</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b : to relate the words or sense of (something said)</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c : to make a written record or summary of</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">d (1) : to watch for and write about the newsworthy aspects or developments of : cover</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">d (2) : to prepare or present an account of for broadcast</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Liberty+of+the+press"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">legal definition</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;of: Liberty of the Press</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The right to print and publish the truth, from good motives, and for justifiable ends. 3 Johns. Cas. 394.</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. The abuse of the right is punished criminally, by indictment; civilly, by action.</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. This right is secured by the constitution of the United States. Amendments, art.</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vide Judge Cooper's Treatise on the Law of Libel, and the Liberty of the Press, passim; and article Libel.</span></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: normal;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The First Amendment of the United States Constitution</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Section 17 of the New Mexico Constitution:<o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every person may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let us look at how else one might be able to define the media.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The State of New Mexico wrote a shield law to protect the disclosure of news sources in 1973, long before the concept of the world-wide-web was envisioned. It is fathomable that any judge today would agree that online communications would now qualify to the limited list mentioned in this statute. The statute contradicts itself when it tries to define what entities are protected and yet clearly ignores: the publication of pamphlets, books, production of documentary films, videos, academic and scholarly works, and the list could go on.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is pretty clear that this statute was written at the behest of “newspaper, magazine, press association, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast or television station or network, or cable television system,” for those who engage in “breaking news,” or what some in the industry call “spot news” or “hard news.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, there are many others who relay information to citizens that gather facts from the same people that those listed in the statute do, but just because they are not on that limited list, are they not entitled to the same protection under the equal protection clause of due process found in the fifth and fourteenth amendments?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other factor that is so glaring is the commercial aspect in the definitions as found in:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico State Statute 38-6-7. News Sources and Information; Mandatory Disclosure Prohibited; definitions; special procedure for prevention of injustice issue. (1973)</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. For the purpose of this act [this section]:</span></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(7) "journalist" means any person who, for gain is engaged in gathering, preparing, editing, analyzing or commenting on news for a newspaper, magazine, news agency, news or feature syndicate, press association or wire service, or who was so engaged at the time a source or information was procured;</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(8) "newscaster" means any person who, for gain is engaged in gathering, preparing, editing, analyzing, commenting on or broadcasting news for radio or television transmission, or who was so engaged at the time a source or information was procured; and....</span></blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It depends on where one looks for definitions of public press or news media in the law.</span><br /><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12-10-17. Proclamation of emergency.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">… The proclamation becomes effective immediately upon its signing by the governor, but the governor shall give public notice of its contents through the public press and other news media.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></span></blockquote><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when Huffman-Ramirez writes he will respond to real journalists not bloggers and tells MacQuigg and through him, other bloggers including me to:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“... leave news reporting to the professionals who have been trained and educated to do so.”</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I challenge Huffman-Ramirez's statement and will put my resume up against his.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am J-school trained and I have, for more than 45-years freelanced for television, radio, all levels print and on-line. I’ve been published by media organizations at the international, national, local, and even governmental levels. I have competed and won several professional competitions. Once in a while, I get paid; even by Huffman-Ramirez’ precious federally licensed local TV stations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The definition of news is even more fleeting than is the definition of media or press.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everybody knows what news is. However, not everybody agrees what news is.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within newsrooms there is an understanding that some things are always recognized as news. It’s easy to know that whether myth, religious, or popular culture, the representations of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> &nbsp;would surely constitute what is news.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to differing sources, from the Biblical New Testament’s Book of Revelations, to Greek and Roman mythology, to popular culture, any person engaged in seeking, gathering, reporting, and publishing information, would recognize as hard news the metaphoric, cataclysmic forces, and destructive nature the horsemen represent.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The riders are mounted upon equine of different colors, each symbolizing significant and terrorizing events:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">riding on a white horse – Conquest, (civil war),<br />riding on a fiery red horse – War,<br />riding on a black horse – Famine, and<br />riding on a pale horse – Death or Pestilence,</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the news is more than events which people believe are signaling the end of their existence, personally or universally.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former CBS and CNN network news correspondent, </span><a href="http://www.newslab.org/about/bio/"><span style="color: #99c5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deborah Potter</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> wrote an article, “What is News? News depends on a variety of factors.” It is taken from her book “</span><a href="http://www.america.gov/st/democracyhr-english/2008/April/20080416211618eaifas0.8870203.html"><span style="color: #99c5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Handbook of Independent Journalism</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">” a U.S. Department of State </span><a href="http://www.america.gov/publications/books.html"><span style="color: #99c5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">publication</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an academic, Potter, and the authors of many other journalistic texts categorize news as having “news values”:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Timeliness,<br />Impact,<br />Proximity,<br />Controversy,<br />Prominence,<br />Currency, and<br />Oddity.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0IU_2jO6Jjk/TXnVUedi4pI/AAAAAAAAH2I/Nhf4RNebX9o/s1600/11%253A03%253A09-AJ-Headlines-P3093483w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0IU_2jO6Jjk/TXnVUedi4pI/AAAAAAAAH2I/Nhf4RNebX9o/s400/11%253A03%253A09-AJ-Headlines-P3093483w.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Headlines on a recent Albuquerque Journal front page demonstrate several of the news values. Why does a drunk driving conviction deserve such big and bold headline? It is due to the proximity and oddity based on a lawyer who made his reputation in the community with what some considered obnoxious advertising that he sued drunk driver who were involved in accidents. His persona as the knight on a white horse was challenged by his own involvement in a case of physical impairment.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The facts compared to other similar cases wouldn't warrant such a headline. The fact the&nbsp;lawyer sold his practice a few years ago did not have any impact on the writer's sensationalizing the eye-grabbing headline.&nbsp;Ron Bell's conviction has been overturned upon appeal.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes people just sit back and let the network or local television anchor tell them what news is. Some people like their news given to them in keeping with their particular liking.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right here in our little burgh, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_in_Albuquerque,_New_Mexico"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">media abounds</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. One can receive 20 local television stations. You can receive network backed news from at least a handful of local stations and on the national level, with cable or satellite, you can more than double that number. You can even find some international news especially from the Spanish speaking stations, and the </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">British Broadcasting Company</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> can be found on the local PBS stations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many believe the word NEWS is made up of the first letter of the four compass points: North, East, West, and South, or that the English King had runners report to court from the various far off regions of the kingdom and would call for reports from those directions, and eventually simply called for the NEWS. Alas, </span><a href="http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/news.asp"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not true</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, leave it to the French, nouvelles, meaning news.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those in the news trade, whatever medium they work from, tend to develop a common news sense. It is why you tend to hear the same stories presented by the various outlets, with only slight variation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is what is known as enterprise newsgathering. Reporters and photographers will find a subject, which represents a larger issue, often a disquieting topic, which might cause some level of controversy in the society. Topics like homelessness, poverty, unemployment, the ravages of dreaded diseases: cancer, HIV/AIDS, or premature births requiring intensive care, quality of life deaths. The list can go on forever. Storytelling of an individual affected by any of these larger issues can be presented as, this could just as easily happened to someone you know, or even yourself, helps bring a personal understanding of a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a journalistic theory that those who present news have a burden to go beyond just what the consumer wants. News presentation must also provide what citizens need to know keep up with important issues that effects their society at different levels.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I further challenge Huffman-Ramirez's statement of leaving news reporting to trained and educated professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vP0lnHOpvCc/Tw4S3s1XxlI/AAAAAAAAI5U/Fh2LHP_qN1M/s1600/AJ-Sharon-Hendrix_0620wa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vP0lnHOpvCc/Tw4S3s1XxlI/AAAAAAAAI5U/Fh2LHP_qN1M/s320/AJ-Sharon-Hendrix_0620wa.jpg" width="188" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know a high level Albuquerque Journal editorial page writer, Sharon Hendrix, left, who is paid very well to attempt to shape the thinking of our community, and who never completed college. However, there is no doubt from talking with Journalism School graduates who worked for her as an editor in the past, that the lack of formal education didn't hold back any harsh criticism or tight writing requirements. Because of cut backs the J-School graduates are not working and the "uneducated" are.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet the ability of these untrained and uneducated journalists is not glaringly apparent. More often, the quality of the journalism you receive, especially in this state, is more dependent on underlying editorial stance of the corporate media than it does of the individual reporter or photographer.<o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;I doubt even Huffman-Ramirez, without having personal knowledge, can distinguish them when they act professionally.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A journalist is one who keeps a journal, a correspondent, one who corresponds, and a freelancer is one who provides journalistic services to disseminators of information.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freelancing is an honorable and time-honored journalistic endeavor. Yet it is often done outside the confines of organized commercial news organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is another distinction of journalist beyond staff that governmental agents conveniently ignore while news organizations depend on greatly to get their products out – the “stringer”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The difference between a stringer and a freelancer is that the stringer has a formal ongoing working agreement in place; whereas the freelancer may or may not have any working agreement in place. A freelancer may be hired on an assignment basis with a news organization as an independent contractor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The term stringer is based on they way writers were paid. Once that newspaper was printed, the paymaster would take a sting and measure the length of the article to determine the rate of pay. A string was used, because a story might cover two or more columns and a string was considered better than using a ruler and adding up the column lengths Once the string had the determined length of the story was it measured on a pica pole (a typesetters ruler).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet a freelancer may also work totally independent of any news organization and approach editors with enterprise work, which is created by the freelancer on a speculative basis. A freelancer’s pay is negotiated based on the work used and based on the news value of the story.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freelance photographers, in particular can demand exorbitant rates for pictures that the public demands.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consider the value of the </span><a href="http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=Oklahoma_City_Bombing"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pictures</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> taken by an&nbsp;amateur&nbsp;photographer Charles Porter IV of Oklahoma City Police Sgt. John Avera handing Fire Capt. Chris Fields Baylee Almon pulled from the wreckage of the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal government building April 19,1995.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Associated Press understood the news value and were fully aware that the public would be moved by the image and bought his </span><a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/works/1996-Spot-News-Photography"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pictures</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, which went on to be the </span><a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/works/1996-Spot-News-Photography"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners for the Spot News Photography</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> category. He hadn’t made a living from his camera work, but looking at how many publications have used his work without hesitation as to its authenticity or technical quality, no one would question the professionalism of his work. The Pulitzer Prize awarded him $3,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Porter’s photograph has hard news value, but consider the amounts of money paid to </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/RMWWN5R242PKY"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paparazzi</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Their&nbsp;work is driven by a celebrity-obsessed culture, which might or might not otherwise be considered as news, especially&nbsp;against the definition of governmental PIOs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6FQikgpNOKg/TVkUaOTBDNI/AAAAAAAAHdA/pvhFUujaDPg/s1600/MacQuigg-Garcia-Wold-Broder_w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6FQikgpNOKg/TVkUaOTBDNI/AAAAAAAAHdA/pvhFUujaDPg/s400/MacQuigg-Garcia-Wold-Broder_w.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet MacQuigg’s </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diogenes' Six</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, above left, Jose Z. Garcia, middle, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://lapoliticanewmexico.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">La Politica: New Mexico! La Voz del Valle del Sur</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and the late Barbara Wold and Mary Ellen Broderick, above right, of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/democracy_for_new_mexico/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Democracy for New Mexico</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, none of whom posts advertising, but are involved in the dissemination of information of public interest to a limited or targeted audience. No small numbers when you consider the potential audiences to be anyone interested in the Albuquerque School system, State politics, border and drug gang violence in Northern Mexico, or the New Mexico Democratic Party. Garcia has suspended publication because he was nominated as </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.hed.state.nm.us/content.asp?CustComKey=193238&amp;CategoryKey=193239&amp;pn=Page&amp;DomName=hed.state.nm.us"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secretary of Higher Education Department</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Gov. Susana Martinez.</span></span><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nvg4P09MF34/TVkLeikjvNI/AAAAAAAAHc4/kHIwnl2d_dE/s1600/Reichbach-Monahan-Haussamen-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573498633151823058" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nvg4P09MF34/TVkLeikjvNI/AAAAAAAAHc4/kHIwnl2d_dE/s400/Reichbach-Monahan-Haussamen-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 215px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Others, including </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.nmfbihop.com/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt Reichbach</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joe Monahan</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heath Haussamen</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, more or less fit the definition in the shield law because they sell advertisement on their sites. Does that meet the test of “for gain,” found in the statute?</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What about the </span><a href="http://newmexicoindependent.com/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico Independent</span></span><span style="color: #0027ec; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which recently restricted its operations; it sells ads yet was for the most part was grant funded. The staff was paid. Some might argue that NMI was a conglomeration of bloggers, but they were an organization that would meet the definition in the shield law, even though the product’s funding was not based on “gain” as much as serving a purpose desired by the philanthropic wishes of their benefactors. Rio Grande Foundation’s mission statement reads that it “is a research institute dedicated to increasing liberty and prosperity for all of New Mexico's citizens.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://www.capitolreportnewmexico.com/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Capitol Report New Mexico</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is among a number of sites funded by Rio Grande Foundation.</span></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAaHM7Gcgvw/TVkV1mTKgDI/AAAAAAAAHdI/XVTND3g63eM/s1600/Morgan-Swuckard-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573510024405876786" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAaHM7Gcgvw/TVkV1mTKgDI/AAAAAAAAHdI/XVTND3g63eM/s400/Morgan-Swuckard-w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 341px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Capitol Report New Mexico started as a magazine with a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/I%201%20Capitol%20Report%20spring%202007.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring 2007</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> issue with Harold Morgan as editor and with co-publisher Jack Swickard. There were also issues in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/I%202%20Capitol%20Report%20fall%202007.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fall 2007</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%202%20I%201%20Capitol%20Report%20winter%202008.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter 2008</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project went dormant as consideration of reviving it as an online commercial product was explored. Beginning with a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%203%20I%201%20Capitol%20Report%20Jan%202009.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 2009</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> issue Capitol Report New Mexico was published as a newsprint irregular monthly with a grant from the Rio Grande Foundation. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%203%20I%202%20Capitol%20Report%20Feb%202009.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February 2009</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%203%20I%203%20Capitol%20Report%20March-April%202009.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March-April 2009</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%203%20I%204%20Capitol%20Report%20May-June%202009.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May-June 2009</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%203%20I%204%20Capitol%20Report%20May-June%202009.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May-June 2009</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%203%20I%205%20Capitol%20Report%20Aug-Sept%202009.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">August-September 2009</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/V%204%20I%201%20Capitol%20Report%20Jan%202010.pdf"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 2010</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was the photographer for the print versions of Capitol Report New Mexico, with Harold Morgan as publisher and editor, I experienced no editorial interference from the Rio Grande Foundation or their President Paul Gessing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swickard is a member of RGF’s Board of Directors, but was not actively involved in the newsprint iteration as he had been in the magazine’s publication. He also sits on the Board of Directors for New Mexico Foundation for Open Government.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Capitol Report New Mexico is now one of two blog sites using the same name. The other </span><a href="http://capitolreportnm.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">site</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is hosted by Morgan, the original editor, and I still provide photographs to him on occasion. Morgan writes several newsletters and a syndicated column for 11 newspapers throughout the state covering 40 percent of the state’s population.<o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">population.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yrJhYVfkOo0/TVkbgYON30I/AAAAAAAAHdY/L67m0ylcLuk/s1600/Scarantino_9217w.jpg"><span style="color: #001bed; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yrJhYVfkOo0/TVkbgYON30I/AAAAAAAAHdY/L67m0ylcLuk/s1600/Scarantino_9217w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573516256919543618" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yrJhYVfkOo0/TVkbgYON30I/AAAAAAAAHdY/L67m0ylcLuk/s320/Scarantino_9217w.jpg" style="cursor: move; float: left; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 174px;" /></a></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Other <a href="http://www.riograndefoundation.org/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;">Rio Grande Foundation</span></a> sponsored sites are:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://newmexico.watchdog.org/"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;">New Mexico Watchdog</span></a> who's original Editor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://newmexico.watchdog.org/719/jim-scarantino/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jim Scarantino</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a lawyer from Pennsylvania who has been very political in both Parties. He seems to have written for more local publications than even I have. He began New Mexico Watchdog.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scarantino is a personable man and we are more than civil with each other. I have been </span><a href="http://mgbralley-whatswrongwiththispicture.blogspot.com/2009/11/scarantino-say-what.html"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">critical</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of some of his postings, believing he fell short of making his case. We can disagree passionately, then go to lunch and enjoy other conversations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scarantino posted a video by Steve McAllister on the New Mexico Watchdog, which used two of my photographs of Manny Aragon.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both pictures were credited to the blog spots from which they were lifted: Peter St. Cyr’s, “What’s the Word?” and “New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan.” Neither Scarantino nor McAllister sought a license to use the pictures.</span><span style="color: #001bed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #001bed;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jPozUyvDbkM/TVkZX1M3G8I/AAAAAAAAHdQ/r2oOVNhRbRQ/s1600/Scarantino-Aragon-Duo_w.jpg"><span style="color: #001bed; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jPozUyvDbkM/TVkZX1M3G8I/AAAAAAAAHdQ/r2oOVNhRbRQ/s1600/Scarantino-Aragon-Duo_w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573513911056407490" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jPozUyvDbkM/TVkZX1M3G8I/AAAAAAAAHdQ/r2oOVNhRbRQ/s400/Scarantino-Aragon-Duo_w.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 299px;" width="299" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Scarantino also lifted the ever-popular Diane Denish photograph, which she lifted for use on EMILY's List, and the State Republicans on “NM GOP "SAME GAME" TV AD ON DIANE DENISH.”</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Errors of Enchantment</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Why is New Mexico not realizing its potential? A weblog of postings mostly by RGF’s President Paul Gessing, below.</span></div><div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BM-6UycHFYY/TXbiQmjhMlI/AAAAAAAAH2A/iHK1q6JOoqo/s1600/Gessing-RIBN-P2232805w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="300" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581897563027616338" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BM-6UycHFYY/TXbiQmjhMlI/AAAAAAAAH2A/iHK1q6JOoqo/s400/Gessing-RIBN-P2232805w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 300px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="http://www.newmexicovotes.org/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NewMexico</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">√</span></b></span><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">otes.org</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, is a site that tracks State Legislators voting records. </span><a href="http://www.newmexicoliberty.com/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico Liberty</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Life, Liberty, Politics and Policy in the Land of Enchantment! A discussion forum site hosted by RGF.</span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">What about me?</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In my statement inthe “ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">About Me</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">,” section ofthis blog page. “Original photographs, photographic and video services areavailable upon request.” It is the most subtle form of advertising I could comeup with.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the past year orso,&nbsp;I have sold pictures from my sites to three book publishers, amongothers. Is that enough gain to qualify for protection under the shield law?Much of my material derives its value based on its archival and historicalnature.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Isqualification under the Shield Law the best test for who is a journalist or amember of a free press? Is the refusal of one or more governmental publicinformation officers to acknowledge an individual, like me, as a member of thepress, by denying me access to government press events or media releases,grounds to deny me coverage of the Shield Law? I rely on the Shield Law inprotecting those who provide me with information on the grounds that I willprotect their identity if called to testify.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOTE:</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To all my sources who have asked me for anonymity, your identity is safe with me.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will not identify my sources of the information I use to post.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a fair amount of case law that not only protects you, but also protects me from having to testify before a grand jury. Law enforcement is required to exhaust all other leads before approaching the media.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won’t refuse to testify if called, but I will invoke the Shield Law. I will actively resist any effort to obtain a District Court order compelling disclosure. If ordered, I will immediately appeal, under the law, for a hearing before the Supreme Court and actively resist the efforts at their trial De Novo (Latin for all over again, as if there had been no hearing in front of the District Court).</span></div></blockquote><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are an electronic media reporter and consider yourself a member of the free press you don’t have to be a J-School graduate to be a journalist, but if you want, it wouldn’t hurt to read Potter’s 60 odd page, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.america.gov/media/pdf/books/journalism.pdf"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Handbook of Independent Journalism</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. You would at least have an understanding of the theory of “professional journalism”. At least it is how the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs, which published the handbook, sees it. I include this particular publication because the government, or at least the State Department, seems willing to teach their staffs who are going to other countries about how American journalism is supposed to work.</span></span><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">FURTHER NOTE:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose to use Potters Handbook because it is a governmental publication for a U.S. Department of State's outreach to other countries, through their&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.america.gov/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">America.gov</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; Engaging the World.</span>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In choosing a government site, I hoped Huffman-Ramirez, his fellow city public information officers, and pios in other government agencies, at all levels, recognize how the Department of State puts the restrictions of the First Amendment into their actual example.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485111173937573474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvGiy8W1xF8/TB8HjSQTLmI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/kNI-mtqECH4/s400/Blue-Line-Short-w.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; cursor: move; display: block; height: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 291px;" /></blockquote><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PhW9h_p4EJE/TVjZOGK-ZZI/AAAAAAAAHcI/KQGdlSbHsoY/s1600/10%253A03%253A29%2BABQ-Ramirez_1751w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573443375069029778" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PhW9h_p4EJE/TVjZOGK-ZZI/AAAAAAAAHcI/KQGdlSbHsoY/s400/10%253A03%253A29%2BABQ-Ramirez_1751w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 306px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez, above, points for KOAT TV Reporter Rod Green, the way to an anteroom where Mayor Richard Berry was going to hold a press opportunity after his public presentation of his Economic Development Plan for Albuquerque before </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.naiopnm.org/"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NAIOPA</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Commercial Real Estate Development Association New Mexico Chapter, March 29, 2010.

Though Huffman-Ramirez spoke to all the other media on site, he did not inform me; I had to learn about it by asking one of the TV photographers.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez also wrote MacQuigg about the photograph I had taken and sought the assistance of the Fire PIO in identifying the officers:<o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regarding the photo. As anyone who studied journalism knows, private photographs are not considered public documents, therefore are not subject to the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. The act is very clear about what is covered and what is not. A photograph taken by a private citizen is not subject to public inspection. Also, as any trained photojournalist knows, it is exclusively the responsibility of the photographer to identify subjects in a photo.</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3sbKeiSNB3U/TX1iAsV56TI/AAAAAAAAH2w/n3Ilrew-B6c/s1600/10%253A07%253A01-Berry-City-Pay-Press-8w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583726877051840818" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3sbKeiSNB3U/TX1iAsV56TI/AAAAAAAAH2w/n3Ilrew-B6c/s320/10%253A07%253A01-Berry-City-Pay-Press-8w.jpg" style="cursor: move; float: left; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 239px;" /></a></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez' comment was aimed at my attempt to identify fire department administrators. Seen on the left, he is right on the first count, “private photographs are not considered public document.” However, his statement is spurious, he chose to miss the point, the identities of the two highest ranking fire department officers are a matter of public record, whether my photo of them is or is not. He and all other city pios have a public obligation to answer the question without hesitation, evasiveness, obfuscation, or questioning the purpose of the inquiry.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To his second point, “…any trained photojournalist knows, it is exclusively the responsibility of the photographer to identify subjects in a photo,” he is also right, to a degree.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, there is point where it is not appropriate to attempt to get the identification of the subject of the photograph due to the nature and circumstances of the event. In this case, the highest level of fire supervisors were concentrating on observing, assessing, planning, directing, and controlling the suppression of a multi-million dollar fire in extremely windy conditions; to assure the safety and welfare of the community and in particular the firefighters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even I would have considered any approach and interruption of the Chiefs’ concentration to be an interference with public officials in the performance of their duties. The responsibility to identify people in pictures does not shift, it is still mine, but using the PIO is always an acceptable way of getting complete and accurate information.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I wrote AFD’s Public Information Officer Melissa Romero, when I requested her help to, confirm the identity of the two men in the photograph:<o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I rather get it right than have you write me that I got it wrong.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez goes on:<o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You should also know that our team of public information officers are extremely responsive to our credentialed local and national media.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The argument centers around the word, “credential(s) or (ed),” defined by MicroSoft’s Tool Thesaurus as, “a letter, badge or other official identification that confirms somebody’s position or status.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My badge is my camera; it lets everybody know, “I am a photographer,” my official identification is this publication, available worldwide for anyone to view. How many times have I stood next to very well paid journalists and been accepted by them, without their distinguishing me from the press pool.</span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7lPfSFSGisQ/TVjZ7SCrmcI/AAAAAAAAHcQ/dqTirvBP9So/s1600/KOAT-Rameriez_1941w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573444151349582274" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7lPfSFSGisQ/TVjZ7SCrmcI/AAAAAAAAHcQ/dqTirvBP9So/s400/KOAT-Rameriez_1941w.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 283px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez is being an elitist. Just because he worked in a commercial organization, he believes that makes it professional.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A profession is based on three qualities: it has its own language, code of ethics, and is self-policing. A professional is one who has a bearing, practices, adheres to standards and codes of ethics; it is not based solely on being paid a professional wage. Monetary gain is not a prerequisite to professionalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definitions of </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/profession"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Profession</span></span></a></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4
a: a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b: a principal calling, vocation, or employment</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c: the whole body of persons engaged in a calling</span></blockquote></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definitions of </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/professional"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Professional</span></span></a></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1
a: of, relating to, or characteristic of a profession</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b: engaged in one of the learned professions</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c
(1): characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2): exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2
a: participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">b: having a particular profession as a permanent career</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c: engaged in by persons receiving financial return</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3: following a line of conduct as though it were a profession</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 professional noun:</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one that is professional; especially: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> one that engages in a pursuit or activity professionally. </span></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, it appears Huffman-Ramirez, does not follow a professional code of ethics, as he clearly does not profess the tenants held by an organization like the National Association of Government Communicators. Whose first tenant is to:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conduct themselves professionally, with truth, accuracy, fairness, responsibility, accountability to the public, and adherence to generally accepted standards of good taste.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nor, does Huffman-Ramirez follow the University of Missouri School of Journalism’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute’s</span><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.rjionline.org/mas/code-of-ethics/pr-and-advertising-code"><span style="color: #99c5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Code of Ethical Practice</span></span></a></span><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for Public Information and Media.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nor, The United States Department of State’s Info U.S.A. which has a Codes of Ethics for Media and Journalism Ethics:</span><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://usinfo.org/enus/media/journalism/ethics.html"><span style="color: #99c5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Codes of Conduct</span></span></a></span><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br /><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huffman-Ramirez does not recognize the existence or impact of a “new” form of media and apparently doesn’t keep up on the readings. In a 10-year old essay, “</span><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://usinfo.org/enus/economy/technology/gj07.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crafting the News in a Digital Age</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">”, Deputy Director and Managing Editor of Associated Press, Broadcast Division’s Brad Kalbfeld, wrote for the Department of State’s Internet, “Communities Linking the World,” of the importance of journalists being present at news events to add credibility to what is otherwise posted on the internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More recently, in the November-December 2010, issue of “</span><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.spj.org/quill.asp"><span style="color: #9dc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quill, a magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,” its cover article asks a pressing question, “Sunrise, Sunset: the University of Colorado - Boulder considers discontinuing its j-school. Is it a new day or dark day in journalism education?”</span><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The question is how to teach journalism in the technological age. The problem has probably more to do with how universities require a certain number of classes for a major, but journalism is now more than simply writing. The technology is, or maybe even more complex than what journalism looked like as little as a decade ago. Commercial media opportunities for the traditional news gathering outlets are constantly decreasing. However, that doesn’t mean there are fewer opportunities for journalists; they are simply different.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The requirements of how work is done have shifted dramatically. Fewer and fewer jobs are relegated as single tasks anymore. Multi-media expertise is now part of the new paradigm. Journalists are now expected to be able to master and use multiple disciplines. Where once a news organization would send a reporter and photographer team to cover an event and the reporter was never required to write a word because he would call in his story to “rewrite”, a stenographer who polished the story adding other necessary information to produce a piece of breaking news for the printing press.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now the “he” is just as likely to be “she” and there is no “rewrite” except at the highest levels. Now reporters are as likely to carry a digital recorder and take their own photographs and video and not only will you find their work in newsprint, but also on the Internet and within the website the story may expand to a multi-media production. Staff still photographers are being pressed into bringing back video as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A newsroom of a major paper is filled with redundancy, layers of editors on top of editors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“On a print story there are seven people who read my story before it reaches the press,” said T.J. Wilham, then the Albuquerque Journal’s police beat reporter, told my UNM Multi media journalism class. “But, when I put up a version of the same story (to the paper’s website) I’m the only one to read it for errors.” Wilham was at the time of this writing, the city’s communications director for public safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The test of who is a journalist might be found by examining such things as how a traditional news organization like the New York Times views the Internet as a competitor. In a </span><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://journalism.missouri.edu/news/2004/02-13-ethics.html"><span style="color: #9bc5e8; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">research paper</span><