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What delineation? It doesn't exist. Anyone can say "fuck the President". There is no extra special secret first amendment for journalists.

• JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > What delineation? It doesn't exist. The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." [1]. The comma is the delineation. In case law, the exploration of this delineation has produced definitions with precedent [2]. More practically, the linked-to article explores "whether the 'institutional press' is entitled to greater freedom from governmental regulations or restrictions than are non-press individuals, groups, or associations," concluding "the speech and press clauses may be analyzed under an umbrella 'expression' standard, with little, if any, hazard of missing significant doctrinal differences." (TL; DR There is a line, but it does not appear to matter much.) [1] https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/06-difference-between-speech-and-press.html https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/06-diffe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_the_Un...