OMB Editorial

Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts for their recent First Amendment victory at the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - who ruled unanimously that Simon Glik had a right to videotape police in action on the Boston Common in October 2007. According to an ACLU press release, Glik sued the three police officers involved and the City of Boston for violating his civil rights after police arrested him and charged him with illegal wiretapping, aiding the escape of a prisoner, and disturbing the peace.

If I was writing a standard Open Media Boston news article on last Thursday’s Rally to Make Fox History, the introduction would read something like this “Over 40 advocates from the Boston Media Reform Network held a rally in front of the Massachusetts State House to demand that Congress hold hearings on the scandal that has engulfed the media conglomerate News Corp. in the United Kingdom and now threatens to spread to the United States.

Hot on the heels of a so-called "break" to attend my regular MFA Visual Arts residency in late June, your faithful Open Media Boston Editor/Publisher is now taking an actual week off - a rare occurrence. And one that's increasingly rare for all working Americans, I know. So, yeah, I'm fried. It's been a long time since I've gotten off the workaday hamster wheel, and I look forward to a few days off.

Just a note to Open Media Boston viewers that I'll be taking a break from my editorial duties until after June 26th - while I attend the summer residency of my MFA program at an art school somewhere in a land we call America. Somewhere strange and mysterious where the r is rarely pronounced, and where history mingles with the annoying and largely pointless spectacle of victory parades for archaic northern sports that have long ceased to be enjoyed by anyone within the city limits. But I digress ... anyhow, I'm out like trout. Have fun while I'm away ... well, kinda away.