Who’s a journalist anyway?

San Francisco free-speech poster child Josh Wolf, who was alternately defended and attacked as an "anarchist and activist" for refusing to disgorge to the authorities his video of a protest — and paid the price by serving 226 days in federal prison in 2006 — is now a "real" journalist, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. His job at the free-circulation Palo Alto Daily Post, requires him to write several "just-the-facts" reports, such as police blotter. Wolf now "files 10 to 15 stories a week written in standard newspaper style, devoid of personal analysis, and most of his stories are only a few hundred words long and fail to include what Wolf calls the ‘significant nuances’ of his reporting," writes the Chronicle’s Justin Berton.