Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest

Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by forapurpose on Saturday March 24, 2018 @04:37AM (#16665547)

In the comments, it's a bit surprising to see the heavy repetition of 'journalists are not above the law'.

Isn't it essential for journalists to have access to events of public interest? How else the public learn about them? Events of public interest happen on private land too, including government activities. There seems to be no accounting for that problem.

(It's also not a very good argument because the law in both the U.S. and Canada makes journalists a special class.)

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by jpttsn on Saturday March 24, 2018 @07:56AM (#16666174)

I don’t doubt there are noble arguments for journalists to trespass, but everyone has their reasons.

Should schoolteachers be allowed to trespass in preparing our children for their future lives?

Should physicists be allowed to trespass to uncover the mysteries of time and space?

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by forapurpose on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:28PM (#16667404)

I feel I already addressed that question in the GP, where I wrote that journalists are a special class and why they are a special class.

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