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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."
> Then upon reading the story -- it's the same reporter!?!
Hypocrisy isn't something the NYT worries about. If investigating a leak might hurt Chimpy McBushHitler (or Dick "Halliburton" Cheney) they are all for it. If Chimpy is the one wanting to know who leaked stuff they are against it. Just that simple. And if all this stuff helps the terrorists who the hell cares, the War is just a fevered raving of Chimpy and they wouldn't be trying to blow us up if Kerry had been elected.
Democrat delenda est
Is the person who started the whole controversy was lieing in order to willfully and maliciously damage the reputation of the White House.
Yes, sir, good ol' Joe Wilson himself was the one who was busy spreading lies to the newspapers, first anonymously, and then in a bylined NYT Op-Ed.
Of course, people then asked, who sent Wilson on this trip? It appears that the Administration made the fatal mistake of telling the truth.
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