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Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers?
netbuzz writes "A 2-1 New York appeals court ruling yesterday will require two reporters to cough up their telephone records over a property-seizure case unless it gets reversed on appeal. As the dissenting judge noted, this kind of erosion of press protections will have reporters 'contacting sources the way I understand drug dealers do to reach theirs -- by use of clandestine cell phones and meeting in darkened doorways.' It's long past time for a federal shield law."
High Times is certainly more reputable than the Washington Times (which is to the newspaper industry what Fox News is to the TV news industry - part of the propaganda wing of the Repulican party).
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
> The NYT was against revealing sources in both cases.
Ah, but there is more to the story my politically uneducated friend. The special prosocutor in the 'Plamegate' tempest in a teapot was appointed to appease the howls of outrage pouring forth daily from.... wait for it..... the editorial page of the New York Times.
And now that it is all over we can make a reasonably accurate guess why they stonewalled the turnover of Ms. Miller's records. Because they knew what was in her records, and therefore knew they wouldn't harm Chimpy; thus quietly turning them over would have brought the 'scandal' to an end a good year sooner and that wasn't in their interest.
Time to face it. Bush drew a line in the sand and said you are either with us or with the terrorists. The moonbats didn't need two full seconds to decide which side of the line they were going to stand on, and while at first it was more a case of simply being on the opposite side from Chimpy, they are starting to realize that Bush was right, and once on the side of the terrorists they might as well start swingin for their team. After all it was an easy enough slide, almost all of the left/msm are pro PLO and anti-semitic (even the jews in the media tend towards the left winger self hating jew variety), they hate America and western civilization with a passion equal to UBL himself although for totally different reasons and have zero moral restraints. Most of them spent the 60s through early 90s fighting passionately against the West in the service of the Soviets and when it comes to insane evil is UBL and Irans mad mullahs really worse masters/allies than the heirs of Stalin?
Democrat delenda est
No, they are clearly misinterpreting the existing law, which is the major problem with the courts today, be it the mostly bizarre decisions handed down by our present Supreme Court, or the many, but not all, monkey-staffed federal courts.
Example: the recent appointment of Kavanaugh to the federal bench to preclude a guilty verdict against Cheney or Rove should either be indicted. (Which is clearly not going to happen since Fitzgerald has obviously been turned....)