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First Amendment martyr?
Josh Wolf tells Salon why he spent 226 days in prison rather than comply with a subpoena, and gives his take on what a "journalist" is.
By Alex Koppelman [2007-04-13]

  • Journalists aren't trusted not because of Wolf

    We can argue about whether Wolf was a documentarian or a journalist all we want, but that's beside the point when it comes to why journalists aren't trusted.

    Journalists aren't trusted because of institutional behavior in which insider access is more important than reporting. Journalists aren't trusted because they appear more interested in being stenographers than reporters. Journalists aren't trusted because the most important news stories to them are the color of Anna Nicole's bloomers or whether TomKat are breaking up. They apply no judgment to their stenography, they conflate every story into he-said/she-said, and they are more interested in controvery, even when it's fabulized, than actual investigation.

    Wolf isn't even a blip on the radar screen when it comes to our feelings about journalists.

    -- Bukk63
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    Thursday, April 12, 2007 08:00 PM
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