Santa Cruz Archive
We are seeing something that is very chilling, when you have folks who are un-bought and un-bossed, being told that they are not journalists, because they didn’t want to pick up and go along with the party line.
This is a shameful waste of taxpayers money, a black eye to the Constitution of the United States, and a terrible thing to put him through.
"It is wholly inappropriate, and indeed unconstitutional, for a public prosecutor to single out representatives of a disfavored news organization for prosecution."
Taking photographs, gathering information about a planned event and disseminating a report to a public audience should not be characterized as criminal conspiracy; instead, these activities make up the basic process of news gathering.
Discriminación por opinión y procesamiento selectivo contra periodistas independientes.
Viewpoint Discrimination and Selective Prosecution at Work in Charges Against Independent Journalists.
They are trying to control who gets to be deemed a journalist, which stories can be reported on, and how they are reported.
A Santa Cruz photojournalist is facing felony and misdemeanor charges arising from his coverage of a building occupation by protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street.
The First Amendment's guarantee of press freedom is meaningless if journalists do not possess a concomitant right to gather the news.