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Around the world journalists do enjoy some protections that a regular person would not have. Those are unfortunately being eroded by new laws focusing more on p
by buran77 6y ago
Around the world journalists do enjoy some protections that a regular person would not have. Those are unfortunately being eroded by new laws focusing more on punishing anyone bringing crimes to the public's attention, rather than punishing those responsible for the crimes being exposed in the first place.
Similarly, a whistleblower would normally have more protections than someone simply stealing company secrets. Another area where the focus is on stamping out any kind of leaks instead of addressing the target of those leaks.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter%27s_privilege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter%27s_privilege
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/26/journalists-and-whistleblowers-will-go-to-jail-under-new-national-security-laws https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/26/journa...
[2] https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/Protection/AmericanUniversitySchool.pdf https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Opinion/Protection/Am...
- leetcrew 6y agothank you for the links, I never knew about that. although it seems that (in the US) the journalist is only protected from being compelled to reveal their source(s), not from prosecution for any crime they committed themselves. as an aside, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a reporter to have any statutory privileges over an ordinary citizen, especially under something so fundamental as the first amendment. if it's appropriate for a journalist, it should be granted to the rest of us as well.