July 06, 2005
Speaking of Legal Privilege...

Slate: Who Is a Journalist?

In the Valerie Plame case, two well-known reporters have been sentenced to jail for refusing to rat out a confidential source or sources who told them the name of Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent. Lawyers for the two journalists, Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of the New York Times, are asking the courts to recognize a right for reporters to decline to testify about their newsgathering activities. Failing such a ruling, media outfits including the Times insist on the need for a federal "shield law" that would create a privilege for journalists akin to privileges for lawyers, doctors, and priests.

I think it is no accident or coincidence that lawyers, doctors, and priests have special legal rights and privileges that everyone else have not. These people have been at the center of the power structures that have government humanity for hundreds of years. Of course they'd want more protection than other people. They have more to fear from other people.



Posted by Drizzten at July 06, 2005 04:28 PM

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