'Mic' editor: Reporters' rights 'rise above' average citizens'; Tweet deleted

Jim Jamitis | 11:14 PM on August 13, 2014

Wait a second. Are you saying reporters aren’t special and don’t have special rights? Politics editor Stefan Becket at .Mic seems to think otherwise—or else he did until he said it out loud on Twitter. The tweet was prompted by a couple of reporter who were arrested briefly in Ferguson Missouri for not complying with the police.

If Twitter is good for anything, it’s good for documenting when someone in the media or politics slips up and says what they actually believe.

https://twitter.com/gopfashionista/status/499734868138668032

“Like it or not.”

He deleted that tweet and came back with this.

Sorry, that was stupid. Deleted. My point was that the outsized attention is understandable because the arrest crossed a definitive line.

— Stefan Becket (@becket) August 14, 2014

https://twitter.com/gideonstrumpet/status/499734367712055297

https://twitter.com/VitalyKroy/status/499734628690046977

https://twitter.com/riteormite/status/499734797758242816

@stefanjbecket And you wonder why people are rolling their eyes at a reporter crying foul.

— EM (@backsidegrind85) August 14, 2014

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/499735136658010112

@stefanjbecket It was stupid but you really think it, don't you? Reporting is a job, nothing more, nothing less.

— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) August 14, 2014