N.Y.P.D. Is Sued Over Denial of Press Credentials - City Room Blog - NYTimes

What’s next, I don’t like the script, you can’t have a permit to film? Reporters present a much less danger to the public than the “Lights, Action, Camera” productions that have come to the streets of New York. Is the Police Department about to dictate what they can see there too? I think it a shame, in the Nation’s first capitol, to have to be cleared though the police, like it was still the Revolutionary War and you had to go see the Hessian Police on Doughty Street by the Brooklyn-Manhattan ferry, hired by the British (maybe sent by Goethe). There’s a lake at Bear Mountain Park named after them. Just let the reporters register.  N.Y.P.D. Is Sued Over Denial of Press Credentials - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com