Booman says We need a reporters shield law.
I'm willing to listen to arguments against a simple ban on forcing reporters to reveal their sources, and I suppose people can come up with ticking time-bomb scenarios. My position on that is that you don't legalize torture and if you find yourself in a ticking time-bomb situation and feel that you need to torture, then you can plead your case to the courts and to the public. They'll forgive you if you deserve forgiving. Likewise, if you present a reporter with a true ticking-bomb scenario, they'll almost definitely reveal their source voluntarily. We don't need to make a provision for such a scenario in law.What say you Legal Schnauzer?
Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Word to Divide a Nation
Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old prejudices and deep-rooted fears, coloring the conversation in the blogosphere and the cable news chatter to distract from the true issues at stake.It's the media.
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