Wingpilot wrote:
"According to Jeffrey Dvorkin, the director of the University of Toronto’s journalism program: “The fact that the police thought they could restrict them in this way is an affront to journalism and to the law,” “Clearly the journalists were not doing anything untoward.”
Clearly the journalists WERE doing something untoward. They were refusing to obey a lawful order to leave the scene. It seems that some journalists think that freedom of the press means they can go anywhere they want, and if they are barred, it's amounts to some sort of harassment or unfair treatment on the part of law enforcement. The reality of it all is, the public does not have an absolute right to know what's going on, and the media/press does not have an absolute right to report it, especially if they get in the way. So while there is no absolute right, it is nice to know what's going on, but that's as far as it goes.
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Well said on both your posts bro. Been there--done that way too many times.