Richard Blakeley, the Gawker Media cameraman whose antics for Gizmodo drew widespread attention, is selling his press badge — the last one he’ll ever get, he says — for $100 on Craigslist. Why is it a collector’s item? Because CES has banned him from attending future events after he filmed himself using a remote control to turn off TV screens on the show floor. (Gizmodo, like Valleywag, is owned by Gawker Media, and Blakeley does video work for both sites.)

Star Wonkette commenter FlakJack listed additional punishments the Consumer Electronics Show people should mete out to Gizmodo’s TV-remote prankster Edited version:

• No protective sleeve for press room coffee cup.
• Photo credential only allows you to take pics of booth dudes, not babes.
• Shocks from a designer Taser anytime you roll your eyes at a vendor’s use of jargon.
• Mandatory lunch with Scoble and Calacanis.

Source:Valleywag

Richard Blakeley, the scamp behind Gizmodo’s TV-turnoff stunt at CES, has been banned from attending the show. Here’s the CEA’s official response to the Gizmodo TV-B-Gone prank:

We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.

The employee in question, Richard Blakeley, is clearly credited, so it shouldn’t be difficult to “identify” him, though both Portfolio and Silicon Alley Insider failed to get that essential detail right. Blakeley tells us that he has received “no notice at all” from CES about the banning. Though, seeing as how CES is over, we’ve got a year for this to all blow over. And Blakeley has a year to think up another stunt.

Star Wonkette commenter FlakJack listed additional punishments the Consumer Electronics Show people should mete out to Gizmodo’s TV-remote prankster Edited version:

• No protective sleeve for press room coffee cup.
• Photo credential only allows you to take pics of booth dudes, not babes.
• Shocks from a designer Taser anytime you roll your eyes at a vendor’s use of jargon.
• Mandatory lunch with Scoble and Calacanis.

What a week! On my first trip to Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show, I survived harassment by bulldog aficionado Jason Calacanis, discovered that HP adman Jay-Z uses a Mac, and laughed at Richard Blakeley’s TV-B-Gone prank. Now we hear that he’s been banned from the show. It could be worse. He could be behind bars…

… like this pair of adorably cute bulldogs!(WORLD EXCLUSIVE bulldog photo courtesy of Jason Calacanis)