Okay, had anyone asked Standing Eight back in 04-05, we'd have said that the right thing for Judy Miller to do would be to give up what Fitzy wanted her to give, because a) the fabric of our republic was at issue, and b) her sources had given her information which, while 'fit to print' also turned out to be false, as in lies.
Still, she gets a few points in our book for sticking by her guns, and now, with the '04 election not-all-that-safely behind us (and BushCo,) we know what she knew, or thought she knew, at the time she thought she knew it.
But this: Silence means prison, Judge tells reporters, is not that. There is no excuse at all for these reporters to be in prison. It is patently ridiculous that a judge or prosecutor even asked them to reveal their sources. This is baseball. Are we going to send Martha Stewart (back,) to prison for failure to reveal her apple pie recipe? Betsy Ross exhumed at displayed in the town square on a pike for not giving up her pattern for the American Flag?
We would go on, but we seem to be sliding rather precipitously down some sort of slope. Gosh we hadn't even noticed it was there.
Bad news, and bad business for the news business.
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