17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
There was a flurry of laws during the 1970s that extended somewhat similar privileges to reporters and their sources, but they don't seem to have held up very well since the Big Lurch to the Right.
Phil
As I mentioned in the second paragraph of my original letter (The one you didn't quote in your reply), I stated that those cases didn't hold against reporters because of constutional backing (i.e. Freedom of the Press). A protection which we do not have, unless you happen to publish. -ck