Ken Held in Lockup for Blog Comments about Rell's Inaugural Ball?

Another quick thing (0.00 / 0)

Allen Marko comments over at Colin's blog that Ken's camera, cell phone, and bicycle have not yet been returned to him from the police.

The wicked stepmother image's resemblance to this one is purely coincidence, I assure you.

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by: Maura @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:12:37 PM CST

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I can't believe he was being monitored on local blogs, and that those comments were actually presented to the press. 

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by: CGG @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:16:26 PM CST

Do we know where the other comment (0.00 / 0)

was posted?

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by: spazeboy @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:20:51 PM CST

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I searched, but no luck yet (0.00 / 0)

Google turns up nothing, the MLN search came up with nothing.  Ken comments at CTNewsJunkie often, but the comment section there doesn't appear to be searchable.

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by: Maura @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:32:54 PM CST

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Bingo!!! (4.00 / 1)

Found it!  And a whole web site written by Ken, too. 

Here's his post about his concerns about the parade, his plans to take photos there, and this incredibly ironic paragraph, given what happened to him:

Uniformed National Guardsmen swarmed around the Legislative Office Building Tuesday afternoon in preparation for Rell's Wednesday afternoon swearing in ceremony, making it safe from terrorists, one figures.

I scoped the area because I hoped to snap some photos of Rell during the inaug. I want file shots so when I report on her governance, I can have fresh images for the loyal viewing audience. Unfortunately, according to Mr. Harris, I won't have much access[...]

Making it "safe" from Ken, apparently.  Sad.

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by: Maura @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:52:48 PM CST

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I think this explains a lot n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: greenpeas @ Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 00:50:06 AM CST

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Doesn't say that (4.00 / 1)

Remember from the Yale panel, Paz says he reads the blogs from time to time?  he's hip enough to do a search and try to see what's out there.  Nowhere does the article attribute the info from the blogs to any particular source, such as the police.  It's possible - but unclear.

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by: greenpeas @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:21:53 PM CST

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Paz hard at work (0.00 / 0)

I assume it was just Pazniokas doing his homework, getting good background on Ken, since Paz reads blogs and probably remembered that Ken comments occasionally.

But I also don't doubt that an intelligence dossier on someone like Ken would collect his online comments.  I mean, if I was gathering info on anyone, the very first place I'd start today would be Google.  Seems likely that whoever is keeping the "political activists" intelligence is watching what we do online.

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by: Maura @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:31:54 PM CST

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Associated Press picks up story (0.00 / 0)

Here's the AP story that I found via the courant.com website:

http://www.courant.c...

In it, it refers to Ken's other freelancing gigs.

Well, one of them is -- or was -- at the Courant (see quotes from a feature story link which refers to Courant gig):

"But Ken Krayeske, who runs the Hartford Courant’s monthly teen section, MetroBridge, thinks youth sections appeal even to those without kids."

(10/11/04, Newspaper Assn of America feature - link may not be working)

Quote from Ken in the story:

Besides offering practical help, youth sections also offer feel-good news, fun stuff and inspiration of sorts that people often complain the “regular” sections of the newspaper lack.

A high school security guard in Connecticut was so touched by one young man’s tale that he gave him $72. The teen had written a cover story in MetroBridge, the paper’s youth section, about going out of town to visit his “so-called father” and getting stiffed out of the cash his mom had sent for his train ride home. The security guard wanted to compensate for the father’s negligence.

Krayeske has watched similar things happen, thanks to teen writing.

“Youth voices need to be heard by everyone,” he says, “whether or not you have kids.”

He thinks that the youth benefit from getting to write, but that the adults benefit even more. And if adults will listen to what the teens are saying, societal changes can actually start to occur.

In 30 years, Krayeske predicts every daily newspaper in the country will have a youth section.

“I think,” he says of youth writing, “it really is a great equalizer.”

***MAN DOES HE SOUND DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!***************

Link:
http://tinyurl.com/y...

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by: greenpeas @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:53:56 PM CST

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'From time to time' (0.00 / 0)

..meant religiously, as soon as he got every morning through the primary and into the midterms. There was a running joke Charles was ghostwriting for him because the LamontBlog was so thorough.

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by: Scarce @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:40:22 PM CST

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was trying to average it out! (0.00 / 0)

He said he was all over them in the campaign, but afterwards, has not followed as closely by far.

Does that count as from time to time?

And...yes, now I can make sense of the fact that I noticed that tparty seems to concur with my assessment he (MP) reads blogs ; )

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by: greenpeas @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 23:56:28 PM CST

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