The funniest news story lead we’ve seen in a long time was in this paper Thursday morning.
“Hamilton County commissioners are debating restricting access to the balcony in their meeting room, but it’s not clear if they’re worried about snipers or cellphone cameras.”
The debate is just as absurd as you can imagine. The trouble is, it’s also a sad, sad commentary on our County Commission.
A resolution on the next week’s agenda would prohibit “access onto the press gallery of any non-credentialed news media persons.”
That might sound innocuous, but what about ordinary Joes and Janes who believe in open government? What about bloggers who live-stream news with their cellphones? What if they don’t work for a commercial news organization?