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Why should journalists have more rights than ordinary civilians?
by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Why should journalists have more rights than ordinary civilians?
- lostlogin 10y agoSo that the rest of us can stay informed and sources can be protected. The tricky hit is regulating who is a journalist - bloggers here in NZ are running into this.
- mzw_mzw 10y agoBut do you trust the same governments hassling journalists at the border and rooting through their electronic data to decide who is, and is not, a journalist?
- lostlogin 10y agoThat's pretty much exactly what I was getting at - the journalists police the state, but the state polices the journalists.
- metafunctor 10y agoWhat makes you think you can trust the journalists to keep you correctly informed?
- dragonwriter 10y agoThey shouldn't, legitimate "press freedoms" don't belong to a special journalistic class, they protect activities no matter who is engaged in them.
- DanBC 10y agoUS government seems to think that there is, in fact, a special journalistic class: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/employment/media.html https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/employment/media.h...
- dragonwriter 10y agoUS immigration policies aren't even in principle based on any conception of rights, but of national interest.