{"id":584,"date":"2007-02-09T22:40:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2007-02-09T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:40:38","slug":"josh-wolf-is-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Josh Wolf is #1!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three days ago, on February 6, videoblogger Josh Wolf<\/a><\/em> made US legal history. According to<\/a> The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Blogger Josh Wolf now holds the troubling record as the longest-jailed journalist for contempt of court in recent American history.<\/p>\n

Wolf, who is refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena for his testimony and video outtakes, has spent 169 days in a federal prison in California as of today. He has now spent more time behind bars than author\/journalist Vanessa Leggett<\/em>, who spent 168 days in a Texas federal prison for refusing to comply with a subpoena in 2001…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Local Australian journalists have paid special tribute to Wolf by completely avoiding any mention of his case. Some journalists — especially those associated with the liberal broadsheet The Age<\/em> — have even gone so far as to actually join<\/em> the police in an online ‘thug hunt’; Wolf’s refusal to act as an arm of the state obviously inciting local hacks to obey Murdoch’s Third Law<\/em>: “For every action, there is a disproportionately hostile reaction.” In fact, while Crimestoppers<\/strong> has begun to remove<\/a> images of those arrested (#1, #10, #13; #17 replaced by #28), The Age<\/em> continues<\/a> to provide a semi-eager public with images of all 28 ‘persons of interest’.<\/p>\n