Interesting piece. John Sullivan (aka Jaydenx) posted one of most compelling videos of insurrection that showed him alternating between being part of mob and telling police he was media covering it (he told Capitol police repeatedly in vid that they should not resist the crowd) https://twitter.com/andrewmarantz/status/1356975188236267522

This is the video that JaydenX took during the insurrection where he goes back and forth between being a part of the insurrection https://mobile.twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1347685960172019712

“There has never been a clean way to delineate professional journalists from everyone else...Defining [it] too narrowly risks excluding freelancers and correspondents from nontraditional outlets; defining it too broadly could mean including anyone w/ a cell phone and YouTube acct

“Suddenly, you have a situation where anyone can do any crazy thing—like break into the Capitol building, for instance—and then, when the cops show up, they can just take out their phone and say, ‘Hands off, I’m a documentarian.’ ”