Commentary: Accepting the Outcome of Promising Anonymity

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Last week, Judith Miller of The New York Times was sent to jail for refusing to reveal the name of one of her sources.

And while I'll likely lose my press pass for saying it, I think she deserved to go to jail. (I also think that the collective whining of the Fourth Estate about the erosion of freedom of the press is way over the top.)

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Commentary: Accepting the Outcome of Promising Anonymity

My reasoning is quite simple. I don't think anyone is above the law.

And I think that too often my brothers and sisters in the media tend to believe that because of the First Amendment, we are somehow exempt from playing by th...

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