St Paul Mayor and Media Mum on Journalism Crackdown

[Commentary] In St. Paul this week, a new generation of media makers is under assault by the city's mayor and law enforcement officers. These local officials think free speech is a privilege that extends only to their allies in mainstream media. For the rest of us, it's is a crime. While reports of brutal police arrests and home invasions are still coming in, by Tuesday night the picture became clear. Dozens of journalists, photographers, bloggers and videomakers had been arrested in an orchestrated round up of independents covering the Republican National Convention.