[Pylot]

Bill of Rights
Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The decision of the court to send these journalists to jail for not revealing their sources will absolutely have a chilling effect on the press.

You may like this when the stories run against those you disagree with or when they run against a cause you don't support. But you will also have to like it when the tyranny of government runs over something you hold dear and the press is not there to shed light on the topic.

When mere words get people thrown in jail, especially words reported by the press, your country is going down the wrong path.

All the government has to do is to declare information sharing illegal and your last peaceful defense against government out of control is gone.

The Bill of Rights was put in place for many reasons, one of them was to give the written word the ability to shed light on government and to have impunity in doing so. The written word was one of the key reasons for the fomenting of the Revolution.

Be careful what you wish for, the tide will not always flow in a direction favorable to you.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;...

The freedom of the press ISN'T being compromised, they can print anything they want as long as they can back up what they say, and it isn't against some other law, like revealing classified government information.

[McGavin999]

Oh get off of it. You can't possibly be that ignorant. We are in a war and confidential information is being leaked by government employees.

There is a whistle blower law that protects people who devulge information that is LEGAL to leak, the rightly so, there is no such law to protect people who are on a political vendetta.