Police search home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen over lost iPhone 4G

Six computers and other items seized by task force from San Mateo police - in a case that could turn into a test of whether bloggers can claim journalistic exemptions
California police have taken six computers and other items from the house of Jason Chen, the editor of the gadget blog Gizmodo who appeared on a video on the site showing off a lost Apple iPhone prototype which, it transpired, had been bought from a middleman for about $5,000.

Charles Arthur
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/apr/26/iphone-gizmodo-police-search-apple



Oh the things we get litigious about and the things we don’t. People shoot each other in the street, but the police are carting away computers cause this guy bought a LOST phone from a guy. If Jason Chen isn’t a journalist, what is he?
Journalism is defined as the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business. Jason Chen is a journalist, and there IMHO, today, he should be covered by the first amendment. Anybody remember that?

Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.