Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode 11

On whether news gathering is an essential service during a state of emergency. From January 27, 2021.   In Ontario, newspapers, radio and television broadcasting are listed on the province's document specifying businesses and services considered "essential" during the Covid-19 state of emergency.  So does that mean reporters are safe when doing their work? Is news gathering an essential activity?  As heard in this episode, police have stepped in to block news gathering in at least one case where a news videographer was trying to cover a covid protest in downtown Toronto.  Isolated incident? Or is this a taste of how police are going to be used to interfere in news production? For educational purposes.  Makes fair dealing use of audio taken from video posted online by CNN, Global TV, CityTV.  (Image taken from CityTV).