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Not defending the police, but how do you establish status as a freelance journalist and does that convey protections that California law provides regular journa
by Shivetya 7y ago
Not defending the police, but how do you establish status as a freelance journalist and does that convey protections that California law provides regular journalist, those in the direct employ of a news organization.
by many measures we all are in this day and age. does it require having successfully sold a story to an established news organization?
- anfilt 7y agoIs a freelance developer not a developer? Freelancing is nothing really new. It may be more common.
- olliej 7y agoI agree, in journalism especially it seems to be especially common?
- olliej 7y agoI'm going to go out on a limb and say that the fact that they sold to well known publication indicates that the material was newsworthy. I don't agree with raiding a journalist at all (in general), but more importantly I feel the sledge hammer + guns approach is clearly intended to be intimidating and has no place in this kind of warrant. In essence I have more of a problem with the egregious use of weapons and violence on the part of police enforcing a warrant for a non-violent, and non-weapon related crime than I do specifically the attack on journalism. Obviously the attack on journalism is bad, but in general the intimidation by police is a more widespread problem. Basically the problem for real journalism is the fact that a warrant was issued on a journalist in the first place (think pentagon papers as example of truth to power).
- atoav 7y agoI am a freelance developer, and the reason I am one, is because: - I said so in the tax office - I earn money with it I am quite sure it is not that much different for journalists. As long as you said so at some offical place and earn money with it?
- travmatt 7y agoWhat laws does California have for protecting journalists?