'Dark day for press freedom': Vice must give ISIS notes to police, top court rules

CBC ^ | 11/30/2018 | Catharine Tunney

[Phlap]

A Vice Media reporter will have to hand over records of his conversations with an alleged ISIS member to police following a Supreme Court of Canada decision.

In the unanimous decision released Friday, the top court upheld a lower court's ruling regarding the work of reporter Ben Makuch.

[Phlap]

It is only a matter of time until it happens to the USA.

[Terry Mross]

Wasn’t Rosen threatened will arrest.

[taxcontrol]

Remember this the next time you are asked to speak with the press. The press (in the future) can be required to give up their notes on the conversation to the police. In effect, this means that a reporter can promise “off the record” but then be required to supply that record to the police.

So that means that the media / reporters should now be treated the same way as the police and responded to in the same manner. When asked a question, reply with:

“I do not answer questions from the police, agents of the state, or the press, without the presence of my lawyer.”

[Capt. Tom]

"Police have an important job to do in protecting us from crime, but they cannot expect journalists to do that job for them. The media is not, nor should it ever be, an arm of the state," said president Martin O'Hanlon.

So if a terrorist confides in a so-called journalist about an upcoming terror plot that will kill many innocent people, the journalist should just assume it is up to the police to figure it out, and stop it, and he should keep quiet?- Tom.

[I want the USA back]

trudeau has already taken away freedom of the press.

[Mount Athos]

There’s always the chance that there really wasn’t any contact and he just made the story up

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“trudeau has already taken away freedom of the press.”

Worse (in some ways) — the Trudeau Liberals just allocated $Cdn 600 million to subsidize print media, over the next ten years. Any guesses how that will affect editorial slant?

[Rebelbase]

I did a one man protest of a bunch of peacenik hippies protesting the US going into Iraq in 2003 and turned their candlelight vigil into pandemonium.

The local news station interviewed me on site and edited it into sound bites that made me look like an idiot.

Never again.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Oops. That’s $600 million over 5 years. (Twice as bad.)