The Free Flow of Information
16th April 2008
Read it.
A more accurate headline would have been “Special Privileges for the Chattering Class”.
THERE’S NOTHING like a presidential campaign to help renew attention to the need for a federal law to protect journalists from being compelled by the government to divulge their sources.
Well, duh. They want favorable publicity in order to get elected.
Funny, I read the Constitution fairly thoroughly in Law School, and found no mention of this “people’s right to know”. Nor of any “journalists’ right to be accessories after the fact to crime”.