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To: Road Walker who wrote (241320)	7/13/2005 10:30:47 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574097

re: Freedom of the press should not include freedom to withhold knowledge of criminal activity. It's not criminal activity until someone is convicted. Fine, rephrase it more accurately as freedom of the press does not include freedom to withhold information from the investigation of potential criminal activity. You aren't completely opposed to the ability of courts to subpeona people, are you? And reporters certainly aren't more exempt from subpoenas than doctors, lawyers and newborn baby blood sucking rabbis (ewwgh!), are they? It's not like the government throws every reporter that publishes government leaks in jail for not revealing the source; rather, its only in the extreme case where some crimes appear to have occurred and some investigator is trying to figure out what happened. In these extreme cases I'd say the reporters societal obligation to help figure out if a crime occurred trumps their source's anonymity. After all, these sources volunteer the leaked information, its not coerced out of them. I'm still curious to read what exactly you are advocating, and whether you think only "reporters" shouldn't have to testify or we all shouldn't have to testify if called.