Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-12 Thread teaspace
I was of course just re-iterating a point from the wonderful nyc.node101 anthology on blip.tv, because it was relevant to the discussion. Who is the blue-haired English fellow who said it, by the way? Regurgitation is something I haven't practiced since my exam-writing days, although I hear

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread mmcallen
I agree- This is insane. Suspending them over this is political BS. m --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Pulecio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A parody video that features uniformed and plainclothes San Francisco

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Randolfe Wicker
oogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:55 PM Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Pulecio[EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: A parody video that features uniformed and plainclothes SanFrancisco police officers

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread teaspace
If any vlogger or budding amateur filmmaker produces and posts on their website humourous/offensive/questionable videos of their workplace and colleagues, in uniform and featuring prominently the corporate logo or public brand, isn't it obviously a recipe for trouble? Try it at your day job

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Meiser
OK. Fist off... They get all uptight about this home movie and yet Cops is just fine? That's B.S. i think cops has done far worse for the image of police than anything... that and showing up in cars only when there is trouble... It's only years of getting back out there on foot and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:53:59 +0100, teaspace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If any vlogger or budding amateur filmmaker produces and posts on their website humourous/offensive/questionable videos of their workplace and colleagues, in uniform and featuring prominently the corporate logo or public

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread teaspace
Privacy is dead. Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:53:59 +0100, teaspace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If any vlogger or budding amateur filmmaker produces and posts on their website humourous/offensive/questionable videos of their workplace and colleagues, in uniform and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:21:04 +0100, teaspace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Privacy is dead. Regurgitated one-liners are useless. -- URL:http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Josh Wolf
Actually no... the videos were created for the Christmas party, but were part of something that the producing officer had created at the website http://www.insidethesfpd.com -- I don't know yet whether or not he had an RSS feed or not -- the media content was taken down before more than a

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually no... the videos were created for the Christmas party, but were part of something that the producing officer had created at the website http://www.insidethesfpd.com -- I don't know yet whether or not he

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Jeffrey
Except that the Creator/Producer Uploaded them to the Net - and next they you know someone found them; also the vids were shared - so there is no right to privacy. Jeffrey The police videos were never intended to be public. They were created for a closed party. Very different

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Enric
There's the right to have a personal view and express it as an individual whether it's congruent with the corporate/governmental entity one works for or not. -- Enric http://www.cirne.com Determine the Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Joan Khoo
Yes a person has a right to express his views. However a person needs to respect the stance of his employers. E.g. A hospital takes an anti-abortion stance while some of its employees are pro-choice. It's employees are free to express their opinions as individuals. Its not a problem until they

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Enric
I think most people are sophisticated enough to understand a overblown video parody. The suspension of twenty officers without pay, and Officer Andrew Cohen not even getting police union legal defense (see http://www.insidethesfpd.com/ ) does not seem commensurate with creating a video making fun

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Joan Khoo
The scary thing is that a person can be intelligent, but people are stupid. Ask anyone working in customer service. As much as I wished people don't get worked up about parodies, someone inevitably will step on toes. I think the world would be a lot nicer if more people take less offence. I'm

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Markus Sandy
not so, many people sign those rights away when entering into employment for example, even if you have to buy your own uniform, there are often rules as to how you can appear in it (e.g., no endorsements) many employers (e.g., University of California) *require* the signing of a loyalty oath

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Enric
Yes, I think that states well the police administration and city governments point of view. The world would be pretty dull, uncreative and lacking in innovation if it catered to anyone who would be offended. No scientific innovation would occur in genetics, because it offends religious

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not so, many people sign those rights away when entering into employment for example, even if you have to buy your own uniform, there are often rules as to how you can appear in it (e.g., no endorsements) many

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-11 Thread luxomaticart
Here are some of the issues I think are overlooked in the police video scandal: The district the videos were made in is the Bayview, a mostly black community, with one of the highest homicide rates in the city, and the highest in 10 years. The videos were made during company time with public

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Markus Sandy
the last time i checked, 47% was not quite most except possibly in Florida =) perhaps you meant the largest group Enric wrote: The poll shows most people consider them humorous (47% when I voted). -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the last time i checked, 47% was not quite most except possibly in Florida =) perhaps you meant the largest group OK, this is the (non-scientific) poll breakdown as of this writing: 11% Shocking 8% Mildly

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Markus Sandy
that survey seems a bit lopsided to me i wonder how the results would have changed if there a few more reasonable choices like a waste of people's money? Enric wrote: The poll shows most people consider them humorous (47% when I voted). I voted them harmless. Considering that people have a

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that survey seems a bit lopsided to me i wonder how the results would have changed if there a few more reasonable choices like a waste of people's money? Well it's not clear that it was done with publics money and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:51:02 +0100, teaspace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what SNL has to do with this, but my point is that police expect to be taken seriously when they deal with you. They also happen to wield a lot more power than regular folks and should probably govern

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Markus Sandy
ah, perhaps they used their own 'personal' squad cars Enric wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that survey seems a bit lopsided to me i wonder how the results would have changed if there a few more reasonable choices like "a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Deirdre Straughan
On 12/10/05, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I grew up on jokes of the a Dane, a Norwegian and a Swede sits on amountain top... variety. They don't go into a bar...?!?-- best regards, Deirdré Straughanwww.beginningwithi.com (personal)www.tvblob.com (work)

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:26:45 +0100, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/05, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I grew up on jokes of the a Dane, a Norwegian and a Swede sits on a mountain top... variety. They don't go into a bar...?!? It was in Norway. A

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Enric
OK, here's how I see this. Videoblogging is about self-expression and removing intermediaries. In this case the police officers are expressing themselves in video. The made the video for themselves only. So the intermediaries are the major, police chief, news outlets that are prohibiting

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Markus Sandy
baloney! first, i suspect many police would say they love their job (shitty or not) also, the pay may be better than you might think SFPD salaries appear to be in the $45K-$110K range and with better benefits than many other jobs there are much, much worse paying jobs here in occupied Mexico

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Markus Sandy
i seem to recall that certain people were expected to be held to a higher standard oh yeah, public servants! oh wait. I think Justice Sirrica recently said that was no longer necessary so the new standard is the vlogger i like that Enric Enric wrote: OK, here's how I see this.

[videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-10 Thread Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i seem to recall that certain people were expected to be held to a higher standard oh yeah, public servants! oh wait. I think Justice Sirrica recently said that was no longer necessary so the new standard is

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Offensive Police Video

2005-12-09 Thread teaspace
I don't know what SNL has to do with this, but my point is that police expect to be taken seriously when they deal with you. They also happen to wield a lot more power than regular folks and should probably govern themselves accordingly. Having said that, I did find the police chief's