Luckily, journalism is not a priesthood and people like @steve_vladeck can’t just sit on their high horse and declare anyone excluded from it. The Constitution guarantees First Amendment protections to all, regardless of whether you’re in good standing with academic/media elites
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Everyone’s a journalist. There is no difference between free speech and a free press.
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Yup, people forget who the press was when our constitution was written.
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They want to go back to the time when "responsible" journalism meant consulting the State Department on what stories it could or couldn't run, or delay until such a time when the possibility of public outrage would be blunted.
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Reminds me of the sanctimonious, preachy, jealous, true-journalists-have-fancy-credentials-and-are-the-true-protectors-of-democracy gatekeeping from the likes of
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And winning prizes for journalism...
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It puts the so-called profession to shame.
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he's like a super mecha ultra journalist
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Journalist & hacker. Both true.
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The gov't is in breach of the First Amendment if it only protects the people the gov't identifies as journalists. The gov't thinks it can get away with this as they also get away with only admitting 'journalists' to WH press briefings who are 'on message'.
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Spies are well known for releasing information publicly, please
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You have a point
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There's a larger point here that it shouldn't matter whether Assange "is a journalist." There should be no legal distinction. Assange should be protected as a speaker and as a publisher.
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