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.

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*

[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.