Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf

Video blogger and independent journalist Josh Wolf has been in a federal jail for 170 days for refusing to turn over to a federal grand jury a video of a San Francisco demonstration. On Feb. 6 Wolf's length of incarceration set a new record for US journalism. "Democracy Now!" has an interview with Josh Wolf from his jail cell. If federal authorities can jail bloggers with impunity, it does not bode well for the future of citizen journalism.

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Re:From his jail cell??

[Anonymous Coward]

Are prisoners in USA allowed phones in their cells? I thought smuggling phones into jails was a big problem. The phones aren't the problem. The problem is the linemen installing service. Their ladders provide an escape route.

Re:Honestly

[Fulcrum of Evil]

I mean how would you feel about the cop beating down Rodney King getting his ass kicked, on the spot, for his crime?

What crime? Beating down a drug crazed lunatic is a public service.

Re:*choke*

[Pig Hogger]

"Given the state of government" waaah waah waaah....STFU

Last I checked, unemployment was at record lows.

For dismally paying part-time crappy service jobs...

Gasoline is nearly back to $2 a gallon.

Thanks to aggressive imperialistic foreign policies that piss-off the rest of the planet against 'mericans.

Home ownership is among the highest (possibly THE highest) in the entire world.

With a record number of people squeezed tight by the balls by the banks, living paycheque to paycheque, trying to make ends meet while working an unsecure job, racking up record stress levels to the point of being psychotic...

Americans can go to school, work hard, become successful, more readily than anywhere else in the world.

Only if their parents have the money to send them to schools that don't suck, thanks to the rich gutting the public school networks.

My god people...what the fuck do you want?

A good life, free from greedy predators, like anyone else in the world.

These people don't want everyone to be happy...they want everyone to be equally miserable. Worthless turds.

The rich assholes like you only want themselves to be happy, with the rest of the world can die to fatten them.

Fucking republicans.

YRO should be renamed URF (you are fucked)

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...it does not bode well for the future of citizen journalism.

pretty much nothing ever posted in YRO bodes well for the future of anything.

Re:*choke*

[stupid_is]

Just imagine - the whole US would have only 3000 of them. You'd just have to lock them up and it'd be instant paradise.

Start here and here :-)

Re:Maybe... maybe not

[grimwell]

You're forgetting, the group he was filming was advocating an end to the government and a return to anarchy

A group of people got together and organized a protest in support of anarchy?

Re:*choke*

[Apocalypse111]

The rest of your statement aside, I agree that too many Americans are spouting off about how they live in the greatest country on earth, especially since so few of them have actually left the country! Lewis Black had a great piece on this very issue, so I'll paraphrase him.

If you've never been to any other country, how do you know the one you're in is the greatest? Other countries could be giving shit away every day! Canada is one of those countries. You know what they give away? HEALTH INSURANCE!!!
How do you think the rest of the world feels about us constantly claiming we're the best? It'd be like if every day you went to work, someone there shouted, "I'm the best sunuvabitch in here, and the rests of you sniveling shits would DIE without me! MUAHAHAHA!!!" I can guarantee you that if you had that happen to you every day, by the end of the week you would have killed him. And eaten him, just to try to possess his power.