• Federal shield law Federal shield law By the Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C. – December 27, 2003 Across the nation, reporters are being questioned about confidential sources and even being threatened with jail. … Two reporters have been convicted of contempt
• Federal shield law
Federal shield law
By the Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C. – December 27, 2003
Across the nation, reporters are being questioned about confidential sources and even being threatened with jail. …
Two reporters have been convicted of contempt of court for refusing to reveal their sources about an investigation into how the White House compromised the identity of a CIA operative.
In several places around the nation, federal authorities are subpoenaing reporters and threatening them with incarceration unless they reveal the identities of sources to whom they had promised confidentiality.…
What’s at stake is the ability of the public to learn what the government is doing and the ability of the news media to uncover corruption at all levels of government and society.…
Many, if not most, of the scandals that have been uncovered by the media have been started by unnamed sources. Someone close to the scandal is fed up with what his cronies are doing. He tells a reporter and begs that reporter to keep his identity secret. The reporter complies.
This process is necessary to uncovering the stories that let citizens know what is going on, particularly when government or business officials do things they shouldn’t.…
