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Originally Posted by hooliganj
There's a big difference - the reporter in the Plume case was actively endangering someone's life by running with the story, which is a seperate issue. But that guy also didn't give up his source, and nobody in charged pursued it since it all worked to certain peoples' advantage. Maybe that's an overly cynical view of how that went down, but more than anything I would hate to see that case used to reverse all the progress made with the rights of the free press since the Nixon era.
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Don't worry about that. This isn't the first time a reporter has gone to jail for refusing to reveal his source, and it won't be the last. There's really no danger to freedom of the press in this. When a reporter goes to jail for publishing a story, you should worry.