The charge was for "willful disruption of state government processes". If he tried to push through security guards, wouldn't the charge be assault? Seems like a rather exotic charge...just sayin'.

I don't know what he did or didn't do, but it is obvious that he was yelling down the hall during a government session at two people who had security. Security told him to bug off and he didn't. Charging him with anything is stupid, but that's not how you get answers from someone to your questions.

Fascinating, another article from the prestigious non-biased NY Times. We can definitely judge it on fair grounds right?

Of course DD! Everything that the NY Times and CNN says is absolute truth my friend. They tell it like it is! So true! /sarcasm

They are a pack of liars.

No ND! It is obviously fair when you bring on a Republican Correspondent and surround them with 4 democrats right? And when it is the Republicans turn to speak? Oops! Time to cut to a commercial break

@Hauta

if you're wondering what fake news is, it's misleading threads like this.

Oops!

Trump was calling for the arrest if journalists by FBI.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/comey-memo-press-jailed-trump/index.html

"American reporter", Hauta? In what perverse way would it be OK if the reporter was from another country?

BTW I just staked all my savings to join a 1800-point game. That's certainly more important than the arrest of a pesky journalist.

@Zmaj, if I said Dan Heyman in the title, no one would click the bait/thread. The name isn't important, but that it occurred in America IS.

So, if it happened fer realz, it'd be a problem, right? Also, if it's not real, what punishment should the NYTimes suffer? After all, we don't want newspapers just making shit up. One more thing, if Obama's HHS secretary did this to a hard hitting journalist, any problem? Thoughts?

If! If! If! If! If the earth fell into the sun it would be the end of us all!

If! If! If! If! What the hell with all of this mindless conjecture. it either is or is not!! No If!

ok, let's all hide our head in the sand and declare the NYTimes is fake news. They need to be punished or at the least sued for libel. Where is that lawsuit? Lock them up!

http://nypost.com/2017/05/10/journalist-arrested-for-yelling-questions-at-tom-price/
Is the NY Post fake news too? They reported the story as well.

Here's one from the Blaze: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/10/reporter-claims-he-was-arrested-for-yelling-questions-at-kellyanne-conway-police-say-not-so-fast/

And don't forget Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/news/reporter-arrested-after-questioning-hhs-secretary/

So stop the denial bullshit and answer the questions...

@Brad, consult with someone smarter than yourself before posting. I can see you are already in over your head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz6W0znOfk

@Hauta: "IF" lol

there is no one smarter than myself. if i choose to be silly, mean or confrontational it is for my entertainment

@ND, thanks. I just lost 2 IQ points. Now I'm 3 shy of a perfect 100.

@Brad, go back to the shallow end of the pool.

You are also a hand short of a full deck, Hauta

Trump administration just solved the "press problem":
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/media/saudi-arabia-tillerson-press-conference/index.html?category=media

They banned American journalists from covering Tillerson's press conference. Only foreign journalists allowed. Where are the conservative free speech guys on this forum? Crickets?

That's fine. The American journalists are 90% or more aligned with the Democratic Party. They have a monopoly on information and basically run the Democratic Party so either Trump needs to disallow CNN, NYT, MSNBC, etc from having press passes to his administration and include more alternative sources like Breitbart, Blaze, etc or just discontinue press briefings to American journalists and hand out a daily press statement to them.

They are a raving bunch of liars and disinformation propagandists for the Democrats. Time to do something different.

ND, but trump didn't even let in American media from the right. You don't care if conservative media is disallowed access but Tass is allowed?

I fail to see how these sources help your situation Hauta for every conservative news outlet there are 4-5 liberal ones...... All I am trying to say is that pulling a source from a liberal network having us tell you it shouldn't be validated then pulling 4 more stories from 4 more liberal news networks really isn't solidifying your point. Can you not understand the frustration of having almost all of the media after your skin? I very well understand that most of the time Trump makes less than ideal choices. But for every time he is wrong the media crucifies him. You cannot deny that.

Anti-Trump person: gives opinion, citing an article from the New York Times, which is highly respected among anyone that isn't clueless, though it sometimes leans left, especially so when the leader of the right is constantly attacking its very existence.

Trump drone: THE NEW YORK TIMES IS TOO LIBERAL, I NEED SOMETHING CONSERVATIVE TO READ OR ELSE I CAN'T FUNCTION.

Anti-Trump person: provides other credible sources, including one from an openly conservative site.

Trump drone: NO I STILL NEED MORE CONSERVATIVE FEED ME SEYMOUR FEED ME

@bo

the problem was the OP

"Freedom of the press is an integral part of the 1st amendment. Just wondering how rightwing media handled or ignored this story about Dan Heyman, the reporter that was arrested for asking persistent questions to Tom Price, HHS Secretary."

this post draws a straight line between Dan Heyman asking questions, and the government arrested him for doing so.

except he was arrested for barging past security.

there is freedom of press in public areas, but in places restricted from the public, you must be cleared before you can enter. furthermore, some places where you are legally allowed to be, have a different standard of conduct, of which if you violate it, you will be expelled from the building.

the fact that he was arrested seems excessive, i'll be the first to admit, and Trump wanting to redefine libel law is a horrifying political prospect, but for this situation, there is only smoke, and no fire.

the charges:

"Heyman was jailed on the charge of willful disruption of state government processes"

they're not attacking what he did, but the context in which he was acting. arrest seems too much, but apparently they had already been “forced to remove him a couple of times from the area,”

all in all the washington post perhaps is more to the left, but they've given us facts the facts here. they'll interpret them one way, but frankly this is an extreme non-issue.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/10/west-virginia-journalist-arrested-after-asking-hhs-secretary-tom-price-a-question/?utm_term=.f668cc3dfcd0

@DammmmDaniel, I don't deny that the MSM crucifies Trump, although "crucifies" is an odd choice of words of course -- Trump is no Jesus. Many of his wounds are self-inflicted as you alluded to.

If the issue is subjective, then it sure does seem unfair why one side is so favored. But if the issue is *objective*, there needs to be ONE TRUTH. And that is where I have a real problem with the right wing.

Example: Remember that Paul Ryan story a few days ago where someone said that they though Trump was being paid by the Russians and these top Republicans all had a laugh over it and then Ryan said something like, "No one talks about this conversation, ok?". Well, when Ryan was first confronted with the story, he flat out denied it. Then the reporter said that they have the transcript -- So, Ryan no longer denied the story but he did say that the transcript was wrong. Then the reporter said, "well, we have the audio too" -- So, Ryan said, "Oh, that was a joke [what we said on audio]". It's that kind of dishonesty that infuriates me.

Now, you can hate Hillary all you want, but her lies are so much more discrete than this example.

@DammmmDaniel, another example just occurred. Fox News has finally retracted the Seth Rich story. So, for days they peddle a lie in the face of MSM opposition, and then after the damage is done (by misinforming the right wing), they retract the story. What a disservice to the nation!