Some reporters getting in their feelings about the fact that not all protesters will allow themselves to be filmed "We have a right to cover a public protest!" Stop conflating ppl's unwillingness to cooperate w you as you do your job w them preventing you from doing journalism.

There have always been people, including protesters, who dodge cameras. If that prevents you from reporting an event occurred, you're a terrible journalist. And I mean just awful. Like you should be fired and apologize to everyone, including your now-former employer and your mom.

Whining on here about it? That's just epic, childish BS. "Waaaaaaah, this one group of protesters wouldn't let me photograph them. Freedom of the press means they have to let me get the exact photo I want regardless of what will happen to them because of it or how much I suck."

The entitlement and ineptitude this whining suggest is not making anyone think more highly of your work or your skills. It just makes you seem like a jerk who has no idea what protesters are up against in the U.S. right now -- quite possibly bc that's what you are.

Oh and it also makes you look really, really bad at your job. Because journalists have covered far tougher situations countless times without this kind of sniveling about how protesters (or others) weren't *cooperating* with their coverage. I'm embarrassed for some of you. Truly.

This isn't a factor for the reporters who are complaining bc they aren't really concerned with what happens to the protesters. https://twitter.com/truthtold8/status/1302701526901817344?s=20

There's also this. There are reporters in every major city that protesters/organizers don't fuck with. As someone who has drawn that line myself, I can tell you that people earn that status. https://twitter.com/KateCantrell/status/1302432999112421377?s=20