The NY Daily News weighs in with a second killer editorial against the regulation of cameras on the streets of NY . . .

“The reviews are in. City Hall’s plan for requiring the camera-wielding public to get permits before shooting film or video on the streets is a turkey, a bomb, the bureaucratic equivalent of “Waterworld.” It’s that mind-numbingly dumb.”

“Today ends the period when interested parties are eligible to file comments about the permit proposal. Artists, filmmakers, cable TV interview crews, even bird watchers have been vicious in dissecting the idea of ordering groups of two or more people to get advance permission - and $1 million in insurance - if they want to stay in one place to shoot for more than half an hour. Or 10 minutes if they use a tripod.

So wacky is the proposal that MSNBC’s tongue-in-cheek news show “Countdown” named the plan’s architect, Julianne Cho of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, the program’s “Worst Person in the World” on Tuesday night.

College film students would have to spend a minimum of $500 on liability insurance, or plead for a waiver on financial grounds. Kids who wanted to goof around with a video camera to see themselves on YouTube would have to apply weeks in advance. Cops would have to carry stopwatches to time the lengths of “film shoots” by tourists. The New York Civil Liberties Union is itching to sue on First Amendment grounds.

Director Bloomberg needs to speak. And the word is: Cut!”