"Game o Shadows" authors refuse to reveal sources, may face jail time.

RedBean · #6 05-10-2006, 06:05 PM

I'm all for protecting whistleblowers, and folks who need protecting, so long as they are NOT THE ONES COMMITTING THE CRIME!

That isn't the case here....where we have folks who broke federal law, in order to supply material to journalists who profited from that illegal activity all over some gossip about a guy who hits a lot of homeruns.

The First Amendment isn't intended to protect those who break federal law for financial gain, at the expense of another man's fundamental right to due process.

They didn't break federal law here to whistleblow on some corrupt DA or cocaine ring as in your mistaken analogy. They broke federal law in order to make profits from a book containing rampant speculation at the expense of someone else.

And the "journalistic code of ethics" should be more concerned with not being an accessory to federal crime before it is concerned with revealing sources that committed a felony in order to make the journalists rich.