{"id":4336,"date":"2009-03-12T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/if-the-senate-wont-start-webcasting-this-guy-will%e2%80%a6\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:14:00","slug":"if-the-senate-wont-start-webcasting-this-guy-will%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/if-the-senate-wont-start-webcasting-this-guy-will%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Senate won’t start webcasting, this guy will\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blogger, photographer and videographer Mark Bralley has some insightful observations in a new posting about webcasting<\/a> on his blog, but there\u2019s also a big piece of news: If the Senate doesn\u2019t start official audio and video webcasting, he\u2019s going to do it for them.<\/p>\n

In writing about the \u201cpoison pill\u201d amendments added to the Senate webcasting proposal this weekend by John Sapien<\/a>, D-Corrales, Bralley had this to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cSapien and those who do not want video webcasting, are going to get it anyway,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe defeat of a reasonable bill will become a full employment act for video webcasting. Next year, instead of attending college classes, I will be lugging my video equipment to the Senate press box and provide webcast coverage of the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

That won\u2019t necessarily be something senators will like, as Bralley points out. He makes his own editorial decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the things they fear are fair game, as my work is protected under the First Amendment. Though I am unlikely to go out of my way to make anyone look bad; it could happen,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Then Bralley provides a few examples in a way that\u2019s almost presented as a threat to lawmakers. He shows an unidentified state official playing a card game on his phone during a committee hearing. He includes video of a bloviating Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez<\/a>, and writes this about Sanchez, a webcasting opponent:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t want the Senate to be made to look bad, then maybe he shouldn\u2019t lead the pack,\u201d Bralley wrote.<\/p>\n

Bralley helped get Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones\u2019<\/a> webcasts going before the session began. And he\u2019s been the videographer behind many of the webcasts of the Senate Rules Committee<\/a> hosted by the New Mexico Independent<\/a>. He\u2019s already invested a great deal of his own time in shining light on the Legislature this year.<\/p>\n

Bralley described himself in his posting as \u201ca great believer in open coverage of governments.\u201d He has demonstrated the desire and the ability to make good on his threat to provide live audio and video webcasts from the Senate floor next year.<\/p>\n

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This posting has been updated to clarify that it was another state official, not a lawmaker, playing a card game on a phone.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogger, photographer and videographer Mark Bralley has some insightful observations in a new posting about webcasting on his blog, but there\u2019s also a big piece of news: If the Senate doesn\u2019t start official audio and video webcasting, he\u2019s going to do it for them. In writing about the \u201cpoison pill\u201d amendments added to the Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}