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  Not-so-free Press

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  our not-so-free press

  nicholas d. kristof .

  in the last few months, three different us federal judges, each appointed by president reagan, have found a total of eight journalists in contempt of court for refusing to reveal confidential sources, and the first of them may go to prison before the year is out.

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  Btw, Robert Novak is a scum-sucking, low-life, hypocrite. Did I really say that?
  

  Believes in Revealing Confidential Sources, After All
  Published: September 13, 2004 11:00 AM EDT
  
  Syndicated columnist Robert Novak apparently believes that the principle of not revealing confidential sources is rather flexible.
  
  The man who has stood on this principle for months, in deflecting calls for him to identify who in the Bush administration "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame, said this weekend on national television that CBS should release the name of its source for the documents at the center of the dispute over its recent program on President Bush's National Guard service.
  
  On the CNN panel show, "Capital Gang," Novak expressed grave doubts about the CBS documents, then said: "I'd like CBS to say where they got these documents. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS ...."
  
  Fellow panelist, Al Hunt, from the Wall Street Journal, then replied: "Robert Novak, you're saying CBS should reveal its source?"
  
  The transcript continues:
  
  NOVAK: Yes.
  
  HUNT: You do? You think reporters ought to reveal sources?
  
  NOVAK: No, no. Wait a minute.
  
  HUNT: I'm just asking.
  
  NOVAK: I'm just saying in that case.
  
  HUNT: Oh.
  
  NOVAK: I think -- I think it's very important. If this is a phony document, the American -- the people should know about it.
  
  HUNT: So in some cases, reporters ought to reveal sources.
  
  NOVAK: Yes.
  
  HUNT: But not in all cases.
  
  NOVAK: That's right.
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  Not-so-free Press

  by teejay in

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  our not-so-free press

  nicholas d. kristof .

  in the last few months, three different us federal judges, each appointed by president reagan, have found a total of eight journalists in contempt of court for refusing to reveal confidential sources, and the first of them may go to prison before the year is out.

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  Interesting article on "Reporter's Privilege".... if you're interested.
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  Not-so-free Press

  by teejay in

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  our not-so-free press

  nicholas d. kristof .

  in the last few months, three different us federal judges, each appointed by president reagan, have found a total of eight journalists in contempt of court for refusing to reveal confidential sources, and the first of them may go to prison before the year is out.

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  As a laymen, I think yours is a valid question.
  
  I'm no Constitutional expert, of course, but as far as I know, there is no Constitutional protection for a reporter's not revealing the source of their information ? just a long-standing practice of allowing it. However, writing what one wants isn't close to being the issue, if you (even superficially) examine the cases cited.
  
  Why would Novak, who publicly revealed the name of a CIA operative?a FELONY?not be brought up on charges (or in any other way held accountable) when others who are "guilty" of the same "crime" in less egregious cases are on their way to prison?
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  Prince William And The Dubbies.

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  you can watch the interview on video as well as read it.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4026131.stm.

  englishman.

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  Geez, you could really have fun with this scenerio.

  No... you couldn't. It would be a disaster of epic proportions.
  
  
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  Prince William And The Dubbies.

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  you can watch the interview on video as well as read it.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4026131.stm.

  englishman.

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  I didn't mind being proposed to but that one really caught me out. I was a little bit stumped as to what to say on that one.
  
  The proposal presumably was from a young kid.
  
  Yes it was. I don't know old she was, 14, 15? It was very sweet of her to ask me but I had to decline, sadly.

  Funny.
  
  A good bit of that interview was played on one of the news channels here just last night. CNN, I think. (They left out the part about the Dubs.)
  
  He appears to be a very fine young man. Very down to earth... considering. The Princess would be very proud of how her boys are turning out. Good for them.
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  Go Stinky...It's ya Brifday...

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  happy smurfday sp!

  woo hoo for bridget!

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  Weird, my birthday isn't until Sunday...

  Kinda what *I* thought!!
  
  

  So, yeah, I'm going to be 26 .. I'm kinda depressed about it. I'll officially be in my.. LATE twenties..

  Yep. 'Tis a pity. You have reason to be concerned. You're gettin' damn old, chicka.
  
  
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  p.s.

  ((Badger)) you are a sweetie for starting this thread!

  No he ain't!! He spoiled my plans! Grrrr.
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  Not-so-free Press

  by teejay in

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  our not-so-free press

  nicholas d. kristof .

  in the last few months, three different us federal judges, each appointed by president reagan, have found a total of eight journalists in contempt of court for refusing to reveal confidential sources, and the first of them may go to prison before the year is out.

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  Our Not-So-Free Press
  NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
  
  In the last few months, three different US federal judges, each appointed by President Reagan, have found a total of eight journalists in contempt of court for refusing to reveal confidential sources, and the first of them may go to prison before the year is out. Some of the rest may be in prison by spring.
  
  The first reporter likely to go to jail is Jim Taricani, a television reporter for the NBC station in Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Taricani obtained and broadcast, completely legally, a videotape of a city official as he accepted an envelope full of cash.
  
  US District Judge Ernest Torres found Mr. Taricani in contempt for refusing to identify the person he got the videotape from, and the judge fined him $1,000 a day. That hasn?t broken Mr. Taricani, so Judge Torres has set a hearing for November 18 to decide whether to squeeze him further by throwing him in jail.
  
  Patrick Fitzgerald, the overzealous special prosecutor who hasn?t made any progress in punishing the White House officials believed to have leaked the identity of the CIA officer Valerie Plame to Robert Novak, seems determined to imprison two reporters who committed no crime ? Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of TIME ? because they won?t blab about confidential sources. Federal District Judge Thomas Hogan is threatening to send them to prison; a hearing is set for December 8. Mr. Novak is in no apparent jeopardy for reasons that remain unclear.
  
  Then there?s a third case, a civil suit between the nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee and the government. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson held five reporters who are not even parties to the suit in contempt for refusing to reveal confidential sources.
  
  In yet another case, the Justice Department is backing a prosecutor?s effort to get a record of telephone calls made by two New York Times reporters?uncovering all their confidential sources in the fall of 2001. Put all this together, and we?re seeing a broad assault on freedom of the press that would appall us if it were happening in Kazakhstan.
  
  Responsibility lies primarily with the judges rather than with the Bush administration. But it?s probably not a coincidence that we?re seeing an offensive against press freedoms during an administration that has a Brezhnevian fondness for secrecy.
  
  Journalists are in this mess partly because we?re widely seen as arrogant and biased. But when reporters face jail for doing their jobs, the ultimate victim is the free flow of information, the circulatory system of any democracy.
  
  In May, Iran?s secret police detained me in Tehran and demanded that I identify a revolutionary guard I had quoted as saying ?to hell with the mullahs.? My interrogators threatened to imprison me unless I revealed my source. But after a standoff, the Iranian goons let me go. Imprisoning Western journalists for protecting their sources was too medieval, even for them. Let?s hope the US judicial system shows the same restraint as those Iranian thugs.
  

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  Go Stinky...It's ya Brifday...

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  happy smurfday sp!

  woo hoo for bridget!

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  It's SP's birfday?
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  Dominoes!

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  who likes to play dominoes?

  how long have you been at it?

  are you any good?

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  I spent many many hours during my teens playing dominoes. Learned from some master players... Buck, Red, JP. Old timers like Doc and Mr. Johnson who looked like kind, mild-mannered grandfather types but who'd talk smack and make you feel like a leetle gurl.
  
  Trust me. You don't wanna play me. Wouldn't want to ruin a friendship.
  
  
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  My Brother Can't Even Do Microphone Duty Because He Went To My Kid's Weddin

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  my mother just told me that my brother was told by his elders that because he attended my daughter's wedding, he was not going to be allowed any privileges, including "handling the microphones".

  my elder friend that also went to the wedding told me he was being deleted too.

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  tock... tock... tock.