On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Monday, September 23, 2002
Vancouver Police are deciding whether or not to recommend that the Crown lay charges against reporters and photographers who were covering the eviction of squatters in the former Woodward's building.
The official line from Police Chief Jamie Graham is that some reporters may have been interfering with police operations.
On the other hand, Langara College journalism instructor Gerry Porter says police are trying to intimidate the media.
"I think police are saying, ' Look, we want to tell you where you can go and what you can do, and we're going to make your life difficult if you don't learn from this episode'," says Porter.
In short: the police are really trying to avoid the possibility of embarrassing media coverage by trying to tell the media what they can and can't report. If the local media have a spine, they'll stand up to these tactics from our city's "finest."
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