This story and the Able Danger story are the two biggest "media" disappointments of the year, for me.
Often I find myself defending at least some journalists (in part because two of my best friends are journalists), but I can't defend journalists with a straight face any more. How many thousands of man-hours have been spent by journalists over the past five years trying to find cover-ups and scandals coming from the upper levels of government? Well, here's two cover-ups of seeming enormous implications that are begging to be reported, and America's journalists have shied away like frightened puppies.
But the laud a moron for going to jail for a couple of months "on principle" who had already been released from confidentiality by the source she was "protecting." Give me a break. For $1.2 million I'd spend a couple months in jail - there's no overhead and you get three meals a day.
Oh, and don't forget them fringe benefits. Hopefully you ain't small in stature..