[OESY]

Hark! More proof of the existence of a benevolent God.

[verity]

:-)

[Paladin2]

Maybe they could get Dan Ra^ther to join them.

[HEY4QDEMS]

The government's position has been that reporters shouldn't have special privileges allowing them to impede a criminal investigation.

I'll probably get flamed for this but I do, for the most part, agree with this position.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Lawyers for Time magazine and the New York Times argued that the 33-year-old case was outmoded in light of the large number of states that had adopted a privilege in the interim and shouldn't be allowed to override the First Amendment and federal common law....

Liberals thought it was funny when Bob Novak was being threatened, now that 2 of their own are in danger, suddenly it's not so funny. Serves 'em right.

[TGOGary]

My faith has returned, not in the courts, but in God.

[Ron in Acreage]

No more protecting thier own. Criminals. The leaker must be a democrat or these 2 "reporters" would have spilled their guts a long time ago. Any bet on who it is? Leaky Leahy? Sen. Depends.

[Rodney King]

They deserve this. No crime was comitted in the first place, but the liberals thought they could get W. So they pressed for an investigation, now it is hitting them and they are whining. Serves 'em right.

[finnman69]

Lock em up, it will teach these 'editorialists' (I cant call them journalists)the downside of using anonymous sources.

[Brilliant]

Couldn't happen to a better bunch.

[Royal Wulff]

Can anyone explain to me why it is that Novak wrote the article, but these two face jail time? What am I missing?

[funkywbr]

Now will see if the are willing to go to jail in order to protect Joe Wilson.

[DManA]

Reporters have all the legal rights of citizens. I think what we're talking about here are special privileges.

the legal rights of journalists,

[B.Bumbleberry]

Forth-nine (sic) states and the District of Columbia either have laws on their books -- or case law precedents -- that shield journalists from revealing sources

I doubt this is true. It's always been my general understanding that reporters do not have, and never have had, such a privilege. Nor should they.

[mattdono]

Well, I would like to comment, extensively, on the various aspects of freedom of the press and how this case is a great encroachment...

But, all I can really come up with is...

" BBAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAWWWWAAAAAAA!

[jmaroneps37]

Oh wow, too bad! Hee hee hee hee hee!

[OESY]

43 FAKED SOURCES BY ONE COLUMNIST at the Sacramento Bee?


A newspaper investigation of a former columnist for The Sacramento Bee could not verify 43 sources she used in a sampling of 12 years of her work.

Diana Griego Erwin resigned May 11 as she came under scrutiny about the existence of people she quoted. She has denied making up information, but Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez said the Bee should have been able to locate the people named in the stories.


As Neverdock observes:

Main stream media sneer at bloggers, claiming that we are unregulated, out of control and no one checks our work like their editors do theirs. Yet time and time again we find it is MSM who are faking it.


The whole high-horse act needs to be given a rest.

-- Glenn Reynolds, instapundit.com/

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and New York Times correspondent Judith Miller now face as much as 18 months in prison for civil contempt unless they comply with a lower-court order that they cooperate with a government investigation into the leak....

Lucy Ramirez could be in a whole lotta trouble now!

[OESY]

Keller Says ‘N.Y. Times’ Must Look Beyond Its Urban, Liberal Base

In a lengthy memo published on the newspaper’s Web site, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, announced several new policies in response to a recent report by the paper’s Credibility Committee. Among them is a fresh attempt to diversify the Times’ staff and viewpoints, and not in the usual racial or gender ways, but in political, religious and cultural areas as well.

The aim, he wrote, is “to stretch beyond our predominantly urban, culturally liberal orientation, to cover the full range of our national conversation.”

The point, Keller wrote, “is not that we should begin recruiting reporters and editors for their political outlook; it is part of our professional code that we keep our political views out of the paper. The point is that we want a range of experience. We have a recruiting committee that tracks promising outside candidates, and that committee has already begun to consider ways to enrich the variety of backgrounds of our reporters and editors.

“First and foremost we hire the best reporters, editors, photographers and artists in the business. But we will make an extra effort to focus on diversity of religious
upbringing and military experience, of region and class."

-- mcgeheezone.com/weblog/

[jordan8]

The reporters should tell the court to go to hell, and serve their time with pride. Anonymous sources can be misused but secret sources are sometimes necessary when a government acts in secrecy, particularly those times when its secrecy is not the product of necessity but of self-interest.

[mewzilla]

They ain't covering for a Pubbie....