Nope. I'm saying that when you become part of a mob, you aren't reporting a story -- you are part of it.
I got stuck in the middle of a performance of my local "occupy" movement's protest theater when walking home from work. The local police force in my city had orders to avoid provocation and violence with the protestors, and they followed those orders.
But the protestors with assistance with professional agitators from labor groups like the CWA weren't happy about that. They tried to pull a policeman off of his horse. They ran into the street during rush hour with tents. (i was nearly run down by a swerving bus.)
The first amendment doesn't give you the right to riot. It doesn't give you a right to seize public parks for your private use. Creating mayhem to attract TV cameras isn't free speech -- it's anarchy.
Sounds like a shining beacon of free speech to me.