Journalists verify facts based on shakey sources. A reporter could have many sources, including other journalists who share information with them. If a reporters source was another reporter, it would seem professional not to reveal the source. And smart too! In the case of Ms. Miller, the whole thing sounds like a case of guilt by association. There is a huge budget for fake news, so maybe your source could turn out to be fake, so you still need to stick with the facts. Somebody being jailed for protecting a source of information who may be a colleague will anger many people. The government has sources of information that they don’t have to reveal, because doing so could put the sources in danger or compromise an investigation. If I send you hard to get information and say don’t quote me on that, you shouldn’t quote me. As a journalist, you should verify the information and possibly expand on it. I may be the source of your story and not be mentioned in the story. I am a source, but by not revealing who I am you have not misled your readers or editors. I could of been Ms. Millers source, but I’ll let the facts tell the rest of the story. My sources can’t be verified, they are dead. Those are the breaks in the news business. The facts never die. Ms. Miller is in jail, the sources may be dead and the truth goes marching on. Maybe she is protecting the innocent or being jailed for being innocent. If the sources are dead, you won’t be able to verify much anyways, so the sources don’t make the story. I can’t see why the investigators are so interested in the sources a writer uses. I could be dead by the time this information spreads around the globe, so don’t quote me! Live free or die.

Once again you show that you haven’t read the article or the news. The point is Rove is accused of revealing a CIA operative’s name. The columnist, Robert Novak, who wrote the story and the suspected leaker are walking the streets. The reporter that wrote a story used comments from Novak’s column and the second reporter, Judith Miller, did not even write a story and has no notes. Judith Miller is now being held in jail until she either reveals the source or the Grand Jury expires, in four months.

The Downing Street Memos are not being covered in the U.S. A casual reference on page 31 is not coverage. Bush lied to Congress and then the American people, willfully and knowingly. His Secretary of State presented false information to the United Nations. The decision to Invade Iraq was made and the reason was fabricated later. The American press is ignoring this story. And every day more American soldiers are killer and severely injured.

If you are going to reference an article, then paste a link to that article with your post. I am not aware of who David Corn is and I don’t read the Nation.

They WANT circulation and viewership to continue slipping until “news” as we know it disappears. The same multinational corporations that own our “news” organizations would LOVE to get rid of news and replace it with infotainment.

It’s just harder to make gobs of money when you’re giving people information that makes them feel angry, uncomfortable, or pissed off.

Bring Dan Rather back indeed -that was funny. Was Dan and his open Liberal bias only “so-called”, and wasn’t / isn’t CBS generally considered part of the Media?

Ron

Is anyone else aware that Patrick Fitzgerald is the same prosecutor that went after Lynn Stewart? Lynn Stewart is a communist who was prosecuted by the Bush administration for the crime of representing her client. Although the client is a convicted terrorist, the Bushits didn’t like the way she represented him and found herself on trial. Her partner, the former Attorney General Ramsey Clark was not charged. Now, how many defense lawyers are going to feel inhibited and intimidated the next time a terrorist suspect is on trial.

After the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, several members of the Senate motioned that the Government should not jail the two journalists, Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller, who refused to speak to the Grand Jury. The motion failed because some members refused to support it. The Senators who opposed the motion refused to identify themselves on the record. Can you say hypocrisy?

The blog raises some very good questions. Why does Robert Novak still walk the streets? Why has there been no firing, or at least suspension, of anyone in the White House if Novak had named them. If Fitzgerald has told the Supreme Court that the investigation is complete then why is he still going after Cooper and Miller.

For some reason this is beginning to sound like a RICO offense.

Is anyone else aware that Patrick Fitzgerald is the same prosecutor that went after Lynn Stewart? Lynn Stewart is a communist who was prosecuted by the Bush administration for the crime of representing her client. Although the client is a convicted terrorist, the Bushits didn’t like the way she represented him and found herself on trial. Her partner, the former Attorney General Ramsey Clark was not charged. Now, how many defense lawyers are going to feel inhibited and intimidated the next time a terrorist suspect is on trial.

After the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, several members of the Senate motioned that the Government should not jail the two journalists, Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller, who refused to speak to the Grand Jury. The motion failed because some members refused to support it. The Senators who opposed the motion refused to identify themselves on the record. Can you say hypocrisy?

The blog raises some very good questions. Why does Robert Novak still walk the streets? Why has there been no firing, or at least suspension, of anyone in the White House if Novak had named them. If Fitzgerald has told the Supreme Court that the investigation is complete then why is he still going after Cooper and Miller.

For some reason this is beginning to sound like a RICO offense.