Jailing of Reporters Send Powerful Signal

[NVMojo]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -

The jailing of a video journalist this week is turning up the heat on the growing list of reporters ordered to cough up information to federal grand juries. It also is sending a powerful signal: cooperate or face prison time.

Trying to compel journalists to testify is an increasingly popular tactic among federal investigators seeking all types of information. Even the occasional incarceration of reporters is enough to put the squeeze on the news media.

Prosecutors are exploiting the absence of a federal shield law protecting journalists from prosecutors who seek their sources or material, said Duffy Carolan, a media attorney at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine.

"The federal government is seizing upon a weakness in the law," she said.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/aug/04/080409432.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. "All your truth are belong to us." - BushCo Big Government

So shut up, sit down, and tune into Faux Propaganda Inc. and get your daily dose of "truth"

And always remember: Big BushCo loves you and is keeping you safe.

[ixion]

2. that signal being: the Government is out-of-control

and needs to be reigned in by We, the People.

[acmavm]

3. And we're supposed to care? Other than a very FEW, most

of these clowns deserve what they get. They supported, lied for, and covered for this criminal administration. They can run the same risks as ordinary Americans who these asswipes want to snatch off the street at the least sign of desension.