Example One - Reporter Faces Jail for Failing to Name Source
ClubHombre.com: -Off-Topic-: Politics: Ways The Administration is Infringing on Rights and Freedoms: Example One - Reporter Faces Jail for Failing to Name Source
By Xenono on Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 04:24 pm:  Edit

Some hightlights:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=7&u=/nm/20041118/ts_nm/rights_media_dc

"Taricani broke no laws by airing the videotape, which stemmed from a corruption probe of former Providence Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, Jr. The probe resulted in Cianci and Corrente being convicted and sentenced to prison."

"Some critics have likened the contempt findings against Taricani and other journalists to the kind of restrictions on free speech that, when exhibited in other countries, typically draw condemnation from Washington."

"It's a step in that direction," said Frank Smyth, a spokesman for the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide."

"We've never seen so many federal subpoenas against so many (U.S.) journalists as we're seeing now," Smyth said."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=7&u=/nm/20041118/ts_nm/rights_media_dc


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