Video blogger Wolf now a "real journalist" at a daily paper

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:48 AM EDT

Article Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Interesting turn of events given some in the news media didn't think he should have been treated as a journalist - or given journalist's rights - before.

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

"If the haters who said I wasn't a real journalist, are still lurking," Wolf wrote on his blog, "I hope you don't have too much indigestion after eating your words.' "

Wolf, 26, is the San Francisco video blogger who in 2006 began a 226-day stint in federal prison for contempt after refusing to testify before a grand jury and hand over a videotape of a protest against a G-8 summit he filmed in the Mission District in which a police officer was injured.

At the time, Wolf was harshly criticized by some mainstream journalists who suspected that the self-described "anarchist and activist" was a participant rather than an impartial news gatherer. In a court filing, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan dismissed Wolf as someone who needed "to come to grips with the fact that he was simply a person with a video camera who happened to record some public events."

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