[dnautics]

I sympathize with Barret Brown; the NY times article unfortunately is rife with the attitude that 'journalists' (as in 'the class of people that gets that special 1st Amendment protection 'of the press') have certain characteristics or accreditations - whereas, his actions should be protected by the 1st amendment regardless of whether or not he is a journalist.

[crb002]

A constructionist view of the Constitution is that "press" is short for "printing press". Ben Franklin is probably rolling in his grave at this cheap attempt to limit expression to a few "legitimate" journalists.