Josh Wolf: A Videographer and a Blogger but is He a Journalist?
Josh WolfHoward Kurtz writes in The Washington Post:
He is being cast by some journalists as a young champion of the First Amendment, jailed for taking a lonely stand against heavy-handed federal prosecutors.More here.
Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media -- for refusing to turn over a videotape he shot of a violent San Francisco demonstration against a Group of Eight summit meeting. Unless a mediation session today can break the impasse, he will likely remain imprisoned at least until the current grand jury's term expires in July.
posted by Fergie @ 3/07/2007 09:37:00 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home