Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Freedom of the Press Means Freedom not to Tell the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?

To Leftist journalists it seems to. A heap of journalists will be called to give evidence in the "Scooter" Libby "leak" court case. And they don't like it. Testifying under oath with penalties for false testimony does not grab them at all:

"It will be unprecedented and, as far as I'm concerned, horrifying," Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said of the case, for which jury selection begins in two weeks.

Details here

They were happy to publish all sorts of stories in the New York Times and elsewhere but they don't want to tell their stories in a court where they can be subjected to probing questions. How odd!

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