—Is videotaping the cops somehow speech? Is tape recording a cop covered under the 2nd amendment?—
I wasn’t really talking about videotaping or audio recording, per-se. I was talking about the idea that the press had the right to do things that the rest of us don’t. The only exception is when there is simply not enough room in the venue to invite the world, so the press has to be our proxy.
But recording events that happen in public? Whether a person is a member of the press or not is really irrelevant.
“I was talking about the idea that the press had the right to do things that the rest of us don’t”
But the first amendment clearly seperated the press and granted them different privileges from the rest of us. Unless you think “the press” meant anyone who does press-like things, which is getting ever more accurate every day. I’m not saying only such institutions as are, say, licensed by the federal government to spread news deserve special press status. But, traditionally at least, it didn’t just mean anyone.