CES Bloggers != Jim Crow Blacks

Dvorak is up in arms over the fact that CES won't be allowing bloggers in as press. I have my own thoughts about that, but I'm going to ignore that for now. What really stuck out to me, though, is the accompanying picture he used on his blog to go with the story. Is the forcing of bloggers to register as regular attendees really analogous to black men tied to the cells of their cage?

I'm thinking no, it's really not nearly the same thing.