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I don't see journalists as some special class of citizen with special rights. They use the same free speech rights that we all have. They just happen to speak for a living.

And, last time I checked, I don't get to violate the law just because I'm speaking.

If the law can be disregarded because of pursuing a greater good, that should apply to everybody that can demonstrate that's what they are doing. Not just people who are doing it as a career.



So when the police order a protest crowd to disperse, whatever happens next should go unobsevred and unreported?


Are you suggesting that police can't enforce property rights without a journalist present?


I’m suggesting that a society where media can’t document protests is unambiguously totalitarian.


And that is certainly not what I am saying. Just don't violate the rights of other people when you do it.




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