Comment by hopelite

> Some countries do give journalists extra legal protection against this, but I do not know US law in this regard.

Something worth noting at least for pedantic purposes, since practice is quite different; technically speaking every person has the same rights and laws to follow as a journalist. Fundamentally, there are really no differences between a journalist and a regular person engaging in the same activities.

It's an indication of the unique system architecture that differentiates the USA from all other societies on the planet.

It has been attacked, infiltrated, poison pilled, and really rather devastated in especially the last 100 years, but it is still standing, for better or worse, whether it can be restored or it just needs to die in order to give others a chance to rebuild something improved on the core characteristics of the Constitution.