E&P/AP: Latest Jailing of Journalist Sending A Message to Bloggers?

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher/AP: Latest Jailing of Journalist Sending A Message to Bloggers?
Published: August 04, 2006

....Freelance video journalist and blogger Joshua Wolf was jailed Tuesday for refusing to hand over his unaired footage from a July 2005 protest.

Wolf does not fit the classic profile of a reporter trying to protect a source. He describes himself as an activist and journalist, a freelance cameraman who also runs a blog.

He videotaped a protest in which anarchists were suspected of vandalizing a city police car. One San Francisco police officer was struck during the rally against the G-8 economic summit last year and sustained a fractured skull.

Wolf refused to turn over complete tapes of the demonstration, which federal authorities said might help them identify people who committed crimes.

Lucy A. Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said the case demonstrates that the federal government is willing to cast a wider net in seeking information from the media....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002950472

[Kagemusha]

1. No legal grounds to refuse handing that tape over now

I mean, now that a judge has ordered it and he resists the judge. Prosecutors cannot order bloggers to prison for contempt of court, but this isn't the first time I've seen reporters act like the judge is a non-entity, completely unimportant.

Whatever happened to arguing your case before a judge?

[EFerrari]

2. "Don't even THINK about going to Cuba!"

lol

[Gully Foyle]

3. Huh

not just bloggers. I read an recent story about a bystander having his cell phone confiscated by police because he photoed them arresting some guy.

[ShockediSay]

4. seems to work differently when police are shown in a perp light nt