--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/14/05 3:15:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My point being why does everyone accept without question the need for > lawyer/client privelgde but scoffs at reporter/source priveledge. The > latter is the foundation of the fourth estate. > > > Because when you hire a lawyer you have to give him the truth and the whole > truth so he can do the work he needs to do to help you. If the lawyer could > then be forced to testify for the prosecution nobody would be able to trust > their attorney there for not be able to give him every thing he needs to know > to defend them. As for reporter /source privilege,
>if a reporter is going to make an accusation based upon what somebody else said,I think anybody has a right to meet their accusers face to face and question them. Huh ?? !! Ok, well then since Judith miller didn't even write a story, much less accuse anyone. Mat Cooper's story certinaly didn't accuse Rove of anything. I don't think he accused Wilson of anythng. He just wrote a story in which a source gave him information on the condition anonymity. He would be in jail if Rove had not given up his claim of anonymity (which at face value, actually seems sort of nice of Mr. Rove) So then in DixonWorld, why should reporter/source confidentiality not be protected? Given that it allows reporters a lot of additional information (discussions containing many many facts -- granted only under anonymity) thus allowing reporters to dig deep into a situation and weave together facts of a complex story. Such stories are sometimes of national importance and serve to keep unveil abusive governmental and other powers. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
