[Alberta's Child]

With regard to the reporters, what exactly does the First Amendment mean in an age when a "journalist" is nothing more than a political operative hiding behind a press credential?

Imagine how differently this story would be presented if the "freelance reporter" had been posting stories that were an expose on Planned Parenthood clinics and the sale of human body parts from infants who had been born alive in abortion clinics and then slaughtered after their organs had been harvested.

Oh, wait a minute ... there's no need to speculate about that. If the San Francisco police had broken down the door of a reporter's home to get information about a scandal like this that had been stolen from Planned Parenthood, you can be damn sure that Eli Rosenberg of the Washington Post wouldn't be writing an article in defense of the reporter. In fact, you wouldn't have any media coverage of the police raid at all.

[Theoria]

'"journalist" is nothing more than a political operative hiding behind a press credential? '

That's the point of our papers. They have always been political arms. There has never been a sitiuation of papers not favoring a group. 'Centinel,' 'Mucius Scaevola' and 'Leonidas' were all operatives. Democratic and Republican papers were legion back in the day.