If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There Is No Free Press

Where’s the outcry? Mainstream media have been strangely silent following the arrest of two reporters in North Carolina.

On a cold Christmas night in 2021 in the picturesque mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, The Asheville Blade journalist Veronica Coit sat in a police station waiting to be booked. A police officer motioned toward Coit and said, “She says she’s press.” The magistrate responded: “Is she real press?” “In that very moment, he could’ve decided that we were press, which we were...

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