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Kudos to Mr. Jojola! We need more dissenters in the press corps like him.
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Thank you Jeremy! Great job!!

Can we get a Medal of Freedom for Jeremy. He sure as hell deserves it!
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I walked right by that scene last night. It’s less than a mile from my house. This location is the south side of the Edith bridge over the diversion channel. It’s also used as a pilot entrance to the Balloon Park. The north side of the bridge enters Sandia Pueblo land and that side is where the staging area was. I must have just missed all the fuss. I saw those two deputies guarding the north side, while an ABQ Journal photographer was standing exactly where the video was shot. The sun was just setting so it couldn’t have been that long when I passed by.

I’m surprised that the cops acted so calmly. At lease the cameraman started his points in a respectful manner, probably helped in the end. Too bad most situations don’t go along like this, I was proud of both sides of the party on this video. Kudos.

“investigative reporter for KOB-TV in New Mexico”
While I do applaud him for not backing down, I would bet just about anything that incident would have wound up in an arrest had it been a blogger like Carlos or the copblock guys. Unlike bloggers who are stuck out on their own(and rest assured, cops KNOW this), a professional reporter has the TV station or newspaper behind them. If it does go to court, a couple of factors come into play. The station will likely shit all over the cops. Most cops really don’t want an adversarial relationship with the local news stations. The other factor is that being a reporter from a TV station, the judge is far more likely to take 1st amendment freedom of the press laws into consideration than he/she would for a blogger.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Consti... – In Lovell v. City of Griffin, 303 U.S. 444 (1938), Chief Justice Hughes defined the press as, “every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.”
Now in my opinion this would CLEARLY cover a web blog, and not just “professional” news services like TV, Radio, and Newspapers, it seems like a lot of judges suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and don’t seem to see it that way.
To sum it up, while I’m glad Jeremy Jojola stood his ground, I’d like to see people like Carlos and others not working for mainstream media to be able to do exactly the same thing without having their cameras snatched, thrown to the ground and handcuffed, which is what I sincerely believe would have happened to them if they were the ones filming this incident.

I agree I hate the feeling that just because i freelance t and do not have creds, that I "don't have" the same rights as someone that works for the news.