In the courts of law and public opinion, media under siege these days IT WAS a bad week to be a journalist. Three court decisions went against the media last week: Two reporters from The New York Times and Time magazine face prison time for refusing to name their sources. The governor of Maryland, who barred his staff from speaking to two journalists from The Sun whose reporting he doesn't like, won a dismissal of the newspaper's suit seeking to lift the ban. And, on Friday, the Boston Herald was ordered to pay $2.1 million for libeling a Superior Court...