[privacy] No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Expose a Scandal, Face a Prison Term

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Los Angeles Times.

[snip]

At a private reception at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on
April 30, 2005, President Bush praised two newspaper reporters for
their award-winning stories on steroid use in professional sports.

"You've done a service," Bush twice told Lance Williams and Mark
Fainaru-Wada of the San Francisco Chronicle.

But today the two journalists, in a standoff with the Bush
administration, face longer terms in prison than the combined sentences
of all the defendants convicted in the steroid scandal they helped expose.

[snip]

More:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-balco14nov14,1,1614216.story

- ferg

p.s. Yet another shining example of why the U.S. keeps sliding
lower and lower in the world with regards to press freedoms. Ref:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/10/us-rank-on-press-freedoms-slides-even.html


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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