How Do We Protect The Journalists Without Saving the Bloggers?William Raspberry
on the conundrum created by the Valerie Plame case, which may result in two journalists being sent to jail:
One way out would be for Congress to enact specific protections for journalistic confidentiality, and, in fact, several attempts are being developed. But their enactment would open the door for all manner of occasional bloggers and ether-pamphleteers to claim protection for presumably less reliable sources -- or force either the courts or Congress to decide who is a journalist. And who isn't.
