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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by throwaway894345 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:17PM (#25435974)
No one is arguing that journalists are unimportant, only that an increase in journalist arrests could be a really scary thing like authoritarianism or it could be that they just had a lot more contact with crankier cops.
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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by znpy on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:34PM (#25436179)
Oh yeah I agree with that, I was just arguing that especially because the US had more unrest it makes even more problematic that journalists got arrested.

That's a symptom of the fact that the establishment does not want the press to document what it's doing, to the point that it's arresting journalists.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by throwaway894345 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:39PM (#25436254)
> That's a symptom of the fact that the establishment does not want the press to document what it's doing, to the point that it's arresting journalists.

... or it's the other thing: more journalists in closer contact with crankier cops. Or maybe even some combination of the two. This is my point--we can't draw conclusions from an observed spike in arrests.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by 80386 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:18PM (#25438233)
Is it a symptom of that, or is it a symptom of the fact that it's much easier for the sorts of people who'd go to protests and do things that get them arrested anyway to call themselves journalists?
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