I’ve been in some form of broadcast and\/or news media for 33 of the past 43 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve had years of experience and training in every aspect of how the media works; from how to turn on a transmitter (and the FCC license to prove it) and edit video and how to talk so people can understand you, to the standards and practices a professional journalist has to follow to do news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve paid dues you can’t imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More importantly, I’ve seen how the big media works. Do you have any idea the machine a TV station brings to covering stories and producing content? The sheer number of people in network, or even a major newspaper, can bring to reporting and covering a story? The talent, the training, the experience, the equipment, the money\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you think you’re going up against Big Media with your First Amendment rights and your Twitter feed, your Tumblr account, your little podcast?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You’re simply delusional. Watch a crew from Channel 4 or MPR News or C-Span in action; you and your cell-phone cam will slink away in shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The First Amendment is for the professionals. Like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That sounds really stupid, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when a cop or “former federal agent” or veteran does the same thing in re civil rights – the Second or Fourth Amendments – does it sound any less myopic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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