"This sends a signal to those who would violently attack the press in the United States that they will not get away with it," Smyth said. [More]What would have sent a better signal is if one or more of the victims had pulled their own gun and plugged their moron attacker.
But then again, this was California, and "Authorized Journalists" aren't exactly as a group sympathetic to the idea...
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"I hope that it sends the message that the First Amendment is not going to be murdered by murdering journalists," prosecutor Melissa Krum said of the verdicts.
Actually, what she meant was the government wasn't going to let the first amendment be murdered by freelancers - our masters prefer to do that job on their own, and do not tolerate competition.
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