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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
by stretchwithme 9y ago
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.
- closeparen 9y agoSo when the police order a protest crowd to disperse, whatever happens next should go unobsevred and unreported?
- stretchwithme 9y agoAre you suggesting that police can't enforce property rights without a journalist present?
- closeparen 9y agoI’m suggesting that a society where media can’t document protests is unambiguously totalitarian.
- stretchwithme 9y agoAnd that is certainly not what I am saying. Just don't violate the rights of other people when you do it.