Josh Wolf
Last Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Alsup refused to release freelance videographer Josh Wolf from jail, where he has been for 169 days since being imprisoned for refusing to turn over raw footage to a grand jury. Today, he becomes the longest-running imprisoned journalist in U.S. history.
Wolf, 24, was held in contempt of court in August 2006 for refusing to comply with a subpoena demanding the raw footage from a July 2005 protest in which a police officer was injured and allegations of vandalism of police property were made. Wolf’s imprisonment for contempt, if uninterrupted, will run until the expiration of the Grand Jury in July 2007 — even though all the underlying criminal charges relating to the incident have been dropped.
He’s 24 years old. Here is a breakdown of the information from his site. Just read the whole thing and make up your own mind..
Here are words from his site that his mother and volunteers maintain.
Why doesn’t the mainstream media talk about this more? Or the big name bloggers? The only one I know who makes a big deal of this is Cody Molica at http://www.CodyMolica.PowersAndMorrison.com .
Cassie
I’m not sure. I think it’s important and the only place I see it talked about is Democracy Now.
Actually there is a story on Huffington Post today about it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/02/06/josh-wolf-pioneering-jou_e_40288.html
Cassie
Welcome to Chez Coma. Just headed over to yours.
Wolf’s mother was at the Media Reform conference.I had heard of him before, but she broke my heart, trying to get people to listen.
And, for the most part, I think we did.
I agree with Cassie. Nice site newscoma, the format is really cool
AND ….. Rachel Maddow interviewed Josh’s lawyer on Tuesday’s show on Air America Radio.
Great site, I am a member of the Free Josh Wolf Coalition and columnist at Powersandmorrison.com Cassie gave me your info, take a look at my latest work on Josh’s case I have a better perspective on the events as the mainstream media because I have worked with Josh and his organizers, interviewed some of the alleged protesters and studied the legal documents pertinent to his case. http://www.codymolica.powersandmorrison.com let me know what you think id appreciate your input and wonder if you would like to sign up to our newsletter (for wolf). There is a lot of misinformation out there about Josh thank you for being fair and unbiased.
Interesting point Cassie makes that Rachel interviewed Josh’s lawyer because I was banned from AAR by Jon Elliot because of talking about josh back in Sept.
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