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Re: [privacy] Josh Wolf Update: Journalist Loses Request for Rehearing
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:34:27 -0600
On 11/17/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
Well, the rankings are somewhat dubious,
SOMEWHAT? That's an interesting interpretation. You wouldn't even go so far as to say "agenda driven"?
but the bottom line, I think, still holds that press freedoms in Western countries (e.g. U.S., UK, etc.) are being eroded to a degree where journalists have to fear jail-time for the stories they report on, refusing to identify sources, etc.
There's never been a gray line for journalists. They right to not identify their sources was simply an implied right based on a SC decision - the Constitution doesn't outline it. Further, when hiding a source involves covering up a crime or concealing evidence, they're definitely not protected and they never have been. They don't share the privileges of a lawyer/client relationship with their story's subject. Again, they never have.
Case in point: Josh Wolf.
I must be missing something about this case then...please enlighten me. _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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