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Journalists Reportedly Banned From Smartphone Photography At Olympics In Russia

10 points by prateekj 13y ago

brokenparser 13y ago
Journalists Reportedly Banned From Smartphone Photography In Russia Journalists Reportedly Banned From Russia Journalists Banned From Russia Banned From Russia Russia 'nuf said.
- coldtea 13y ago
  Naive American that thinks has a clue about what's going on in Russia (or anyplace in the world outside his hometown for that matter) American 'nuf said
benologist 13y ago
Rewording of http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/the-olympics-will-not-be-tweeted-vined-or-instagrammed http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/the-olympics-will-not-be-t...
- quarterto 13y ago
  The reposter has become the reposted.
Mithrandir 13y ago
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/11/ioc-spokesman-journalists-free-to-instagram-at-sochi-olympics/ http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/11/ioc-spokesman-journalists-fr...: Journalists will be allowed to use Instagram, Twitter and other social media to post still photos and news from the Sochi Olympics, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams confirmed to For The Win in an email on Monday. "Please take as many photos as you like!" he wrote. "Sharing pix on social media positively encouraged," he added in an additional email.
pja 13y ago
This is probably as much the control freak Olympic Ctte in action as it is the Russian State's need to control the newsflow around the Olympics.
johnnydoebk 13y ago
The Russian article Gregory Ferenstein has referred to looks like a translation from English: "Съёмку поставят вне закона" and "кто-то из журналистов будет схвачен"... Well, that's definitely written by some English speaking guy (for Russian public).
6d0debc071 13y ago
Permitted/banned items lists are often a bit of a mess at sporting events. People pay a lot of money for permission to take photographs and videos of the things. There's even technology specifically set up to bypass restrictions on it, cameras with radios attached so that if they get confiscated the images are already safe off-site spring to mind. IME the line usually falls along whether the equipment someone's coming in with looks professional or not. Though with smartphones getting better cameras it's at least understandable that people would get their wires crossed.

10 points by prateekj 13y ago

Journalists Reportedly Banned From Smartphone Photography In Russia Journalists Reportedly Banned From Russia Journalists Banned From Russia Banned From Russia Russia 'nuf said.

coldtea 13y ago
Naive American that thinks has a clue about what's going on in Russia (or anyplace in the world outside his hometown for that matter) American 'nuf said

benologist 13y ago

Rewording of http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/the-olympics-will-not-be-tweeted-vined-or-instagrammed http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/the-olympics-will-not-be-t...

quarterto 13y ago
The reposter has become the reposted.

Mithrandir 13y ago

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/11/ioc-spokesman-journalists-free-to-instagram-at-sochi-olympics/ http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/11/ioc-spokesman-journalists-fr...: Journalists will be allowed to use Instagram, Twitter and other social media to post still photos and news from the Sochi Olympics, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams confirmed to For The Win in an email on Monday. "Please take as many photos as you like!" he wrote. "Sharing pix on social media positively encouraged," he added in an additional email.

pja 13y ago

This is probably as much the control freak Olympic Ctte in action as it is the Russian State's need to control the newsflow around the Olympics.

johnnydoebk 13y ago

The Russian article Gregory Ferenstein has referred to looks like a translation from English: "Съёмку поставят вне закона" and "кто-то из журналистов будет схвачен"... Well, that's definitely written by some English speaking guy (for Russian public).

6d0debc071 13y ago

Permitted/banned items lists are often a bit of a mess at sporting events. People pay a lot of money for permission to take photographs and videos of the things. There's even technology specifically set up to bypass restrictions on it, cameras with radios attached so that if they get confiscated the images are already safe off-site spring to mind. IME the line usually falls along whether the equipment someone's coming in with looks professional or not. Though with smartphones getting better cameras it's at least understandable that people would get their wires crossed.