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On Journamalism
Journamalism (noun): animal, minimal, journalistic; suggestive of barely articulated and uninformed opinions; a sorry state of news gathering emblematic of the current domination by a punditocracy of a regulatory landscape wherein, “even assuming, arguendo, that each of the statements alleged in the Complaint could be proved true or false, no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.”
The Associated Press reported on April 18 that at least eight defendants arrested and charged with crimes from the January 6 Capitol riot have claimed to be reporters or documentary filmmakers working on the first draft of history as journalists. And why not? With nearly half a century of technological advancement and media deregulation blurring the definition of journalism, short of a real life “Get Out of Jail Free” card, it is a worthwhile argument for staying out of prison.
Samuel Montoya, an Infowars video editor, was arrested Tuesday [April 13] in Texas on charges including impeding passage through the Capitol grounds. Montoya spoke on an Infowars show about witnessing a police officer shoot and kill a woman inside the Capitol.
Montoya also recorded and narrated a video while walking through the building, occasionally referring to himself as a journalist while wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat….