--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > I just find it hard to believe Judith Miller is a conservative > falling on her sword to protect Karl Rove and I don't believe her > honor would be at stake if she > were to divulge a source in the administration.
Whatever the case with Judith Miller, this needs to be said again: it isn't a matter of *honor* or professional standards; it's a matter of professional *access*. No matter whom it would bring down, a reporter isn't going to reveal a source without a fight because the often more it happens, the less ikely sources are to be willing to talk to reporters on a confidential basis in the future--both possible malefactors like Rove and good-guy whistleblowers who want to expose corruption. That's why I said it would be killing the goose that laid the golden egg. If anything, it applies to liberals *more* than conservatives, *especially* with a Republican administration. Where are the liberal journalists going to get their dirt on the administration if their sources dry up because they're afraid of being outed? You really have it exactly backwards. 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/
