Clipmarks | n2sooners's clipshttp://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/date/2008/5/12/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/date/2008/5/12/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-usNYC proposed wedding photography lawhttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/07D69FFC-3384-4E32-91D7-1F34708AAEB8/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> I'm no wedding photographer, but don't some of those rules and penalties seem a bit extreme? My uncle photographed my wedding, but I am not sure if he would have been able to under those laws. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-bureaucracy-monday-all-day-today.html" title="http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-bureaucracy-monday-all-day-today.html">digitalprotalk.blogspot.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">It seems the <A target="_blank" href="http://council.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml" title="New York's City Council" id="kytt" linkindex="21" set="yes">New York's City Council</A> is proposing a law to really put wedding photographers, videographers, and bridal salons to some pretty harsh regulations.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Wedding Deposits go into an Escrow account and not released til after the pictures are delivered.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Every wedding photographer must be licenced.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">All wedding photographers must post $5000 bond with the city.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of owning or operating a bridal shop or wedding photography studio without first having obtained a license...</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The law will require licensing fees, extensive additional paperwork, and fines of $1,000 to $5,000 for each violation.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">A representative from the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs quoted the fact that out of the 30,000 consumer complaints they get a year less that 30 are wedding photographer related</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Out of the 6 member committee;<BR /></STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">the main proponent for the law - left early</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><EM><STRONG>Only 2</STRONG></EM> of the committee members stayed on to listen to the arguments</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/new+york+city/" rel="tag">new york city</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/law/" rel="tag">law</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wedding/" rel="tag">wedding</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/photography/" rel="tag">photography</a></div>http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-bureaucracy-monday-all-day-today.htmlMon, 12 May 2008 23:29:37 GMT"57 states" versus "potatoe"http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/48BB05AF-79D0-43CF-838F-36A21E146DBF/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/05/11/old-media-ignores-obamas-57-states-couldnt-get-enough-quayles-potatoe" title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/05/11/old-media-ignores-obamas-57-states-couldnt-get-enough-quayles-potatoe">newsbusters.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">During the 1992 presidential campaign, when incumbent Vice President Dan Quayle made a spelling mistake, the New York Times <A href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DA1031F934A25755C0A964958260&scp=39&sq=quayle+potato&st=nyt" linkindex="14" set="yes">was all over it</A>.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">On Friday, Barack Obama</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">told an Oregon audience that "I've been in 57 states, (with) I think one left to go."</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Searches at the Times</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/257F8CBA-E1D4-4D10-87E4-DC3F3FD9E82F.jpg" alt="NYTobama57states0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/D282D8A1-D6F3-4742-8B38-6DDF97B6C61F.jpg" alt="NYTobamaFiftySevenStates0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">But <A href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=a&query=quayle+potato&srchst=nyt&submit.x=41&submit.y=17&submit=sub&hdlquery=&bylquery=&daterange=period&mon1=06&day1=10&year1=1992&mon2=11&day2=10&year2=1992" linkindex="18" set="yes">a Times search on "Quayle potato"</A> (not in quotes) from June 10 to November 10, 1992 shows that the Old Gray Lady's reporters, columnists, writers, and editorialists went back to the story another 38 times</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Washington Post</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/7F042F86-A598-44E4-B7AD-ED162BF67996.jpg" alt="WaPoObama57on0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/5E63D41D-6D64-47C6-983E-52C9AAC4A1D9.jpg" alt="WaPoObamaFiftySeven0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The Associated Press? Surely you jest (<A href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&query=obama+57+states" linkindex="21">here</A> and <A href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&query=Obama+fifty-seven+states" linkindex="22">here</A>).</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Google News search on the first of the two terms <A href="http://news.google.com/news?as_q=obama&svnum=10&as_scoring=n&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&tab=wn&ie=ISO-8859-1&ned=us&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=57+states&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=8&as_minm=5&as_maxd=11&as_maxm=5&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&geo=&as_occt=any&aq=f" linkindex="23">returned 27 results</A>, only four of which could be considered Old Media</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">a <A href="http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/05/09/to-obama-it-seems-like-there-are-more-than-50-states/" linkindex="24" set="yes">Reuters blog</A></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Bloomberg "Campaign Notebook" item carried at <A href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5770553.html" linkindex="25" set="yes">the Houston Chronicle</A></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ticket11-2008may11,0,3612671.story" linkindex="26" set="yes">Los Angeles Times</A> blog</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">MSNBC <A href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/10/1007145.aspx" linkindex="27" set="yes">"First Read" blog entry</A></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The others buried it</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">a <A href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=quayle+potato&num=20&as_ldate=06/10/1992&as_hdate=11/10/1992&scoring=n&ned=us&sa=N&start=840" linkindex="30" set="yes">Google News Archive Search</A> on "Quayle potato" for the period from June 10 to November 10, 1992</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">over 850 items</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bias/" rel="tag">bias</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/quayle/" rel="tag">quayle</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a></div>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/05/11/old-media-ignores-obamas-57-states-couldnt-get-enough-quayles-potatoeMon, 12 May 2008 14:48:51 GMT