>>broadcasters from showing illegal acts. Such a requirement, he said, would have prevented the broadcast of "some of the most important moments in American history," including footage of the Bloody Sunday attack on civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala. <<
All fine and dandy however list consensus is that reporters have no special privileges above normal citizen-units and comped scribblers are to despised.The only exception might be for entertainment journalists that can get away with murder.(literally.) JAMES DALTON BELL did corruptly obstruct and impede and endeavor to obstruct and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, among other things, by collecting the names and home addresses of agents and employees of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in order to intimidate them in the performance of their official functions; by soliciting others to join in a scheme known as "Assassination Politics" whereby those who killed IRS employees would be rewarded; A rather savage and tasteless piece of fiction.