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Let's not pretend that it just happened to smaller-audience journalists. There's videos of CNN reporters being arrested while on air.



If I was arrested while livestreaming to Facebook I would be on their list of arrested journalists.

Technically this means that a journalist was arrested in this situation, by their definition above: https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/04/us/chicago-facebook-live-beat...


So? It's still an attack on the 1st amendment. During the protests I was watching an aggregation of different livestreams on Twitch, many of them were streams on Facebook. Some of the journalists doing reporting on there likely only had a handful of viewers when they started getting streamed by the aggregator and then they had thousands of viewers.

These types of journalists caught many of the instances of police brutality that happened during the protests and got video of things like the burning down of the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis.


What I'm hearing is that if I live stream myself performing a crime, and I'm arrested, I'm now a valid statistic for a journalist being arrested.

Is that accurate? I strongly disagree with you, if so.


So you're conflating two things here

If people are actively engaged in protest (e.g. carrying signs), I agree they are not "journalists."

However, having viewers or not is irrelevant.

Also, let's not pretend even credentialed journalists weren't assaulted and arrested by police.


This is such a strawman. I doubt you can find evidence of any of the arrested journalists actually getting convicted of a crime from their arrest, let alone a large percentage.


There's a difference between not getting prosecuted due to a lack of political will (i.e. in Seattle or Portland), and being innocent.


Are you saying all the people in question were simultaneously committing crimes?

Because otherwise your analogy makes no sense. Since, you know, you said you would be committing a crime.

The real question is, is this an honest question - are you really asking what other people think, or, are you deliberately implying all the folks in question were somehow criminal?


The faq you listed says they would not count you in that case


No, you wouldn't. From the section you quoted above:

“While we recognize the importance and the rights of the private citizen who snaps a photo or video of an arrest, this site will only cover individuals who self-identify as journalists and have some track record of journalistic work.“


"only cover individuals who self-identify"

We can self-identify as anything, man. “If you will it, it is no dream.” and all that jazz. (Theodor Herzl)


Now read the rest of the sentence. You supplied it once, and have had multiple opportunities to read it. Here, I'll give you another one:

"...this site will only cover individuals who self-identify as journalists and have some track record of journalistic work.“

Your mind seems to be made up, based on your comments here, but I supply the context for others.




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