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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by lopmotr on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:22PM (#16663530)
What about criminals who have their friend video their crimes to put on Youtube? Do you want the friend to be let off too? Isis did this a lot. In both cases, the journalist is helping the criminals whose aim is to be publicly seen. It sounds like this guy was sympathetic to the protesters so he probably did help them with his publicity.
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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by mattigames on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:31PM (#16663571)
Isis also had a lot of non-sympathetic (of them) people filming them; do you want those in jail as well? According to you those journalist are "helping" the criminals; so in your world view journalist should just not cover anything at all to avoid any possible liabilities, yeah no; the rational thing is to err on the other side.
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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by cabaalis on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:39PM (#16663608)
We can't create a class of people above the law. Private property rights are just as important to a functioning (western) society as freedom of the press.
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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by mattigames on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:05PM (#16663760)
One less person in the property doesn't make the violation more or less grave; you are talking as if the journalist was the only one to enter or like he destroyed something inside the property.
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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by 3pt14159 on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:32PM (#16663578)
Eh, I get the spectrum argument, but if there are real journalists gathered at the gate then its enough for me to say that this was a real public interest story.
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