>> If you take a picture of something happening on your street and write a blog post about it, you are not a journalist. > Yes, you are, and should be protecte

>> If you take a picture of something happening on your street and write a blog post about it, you are not a journalist. > Yes, you are, and should be protected. Protected from what? Being arrested for recording a public event, surely. Being arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail, surely not. So the crucial distinction is what are these journalists being arrested for, and also do we have a surge of people who are trying to cover their own knowing illegal behavior by wearing a PRESS badge.