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TSA Likens Photographers to Terrorists [1]

September 22, 2010

It doesn't matter whether you are a photojournalist or a tourist ready to spend — the Transportation Security Administration does not want you taking pictures around airports.

The TSA caught major flak (pardon the expression) for its recent poster showing a photographer in a hoodie taking pictures at an airport and urging people to call the cops if they saw such a thing.

That could affect journalists' ability to do their job, whether they are documenting airport safety violations or pollution from nearby refineries.

  • "TSA Publishes New Posters Depicting Photographers as Terrorists," [2] Photography Is Not a Crime blog, September 7, 2010, by Carlos Miller. 
  • "TSA Campaign Targets Photographers in Hoodies," [3] Wired (Threat Level blog), September 9, 2010, by Kim Zeller. 
  • "NPPA Demands Amtrak To Stop Harassing Photographers," [4] Photography Is Not a Crime blog, January 14, 2009, by Carlos Miller.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/tsa-likens-photographers-terrorists [2] http://carlosmiller.com/2010/09/07/tsa-publishes-new-posters-depicting-photographers-as-terrorists/ [3] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/photographers-in-hoodies/ [4] http://carlosmiller.com/2009/01/14/nppa-demands-amtrak-to-stop-harassing-photographers/ [5] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81