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Well a few years ago, there was a huge federal investigation in Providence that lead to the conviction of many providence officals, and the Mayor went to jail under federl corruption charges.
An NBC reporter got some secret tapes from someone, a video, which had been ordered byt the court not to distribute.
Well, he was ordered by the court to reveal who broke the court order and gave him the tape. He refused. He was fined $10,000 a day. He (or someone) paid. So, as seeing this as a failure, he was brought to trial today, and was convicted. Sentancing will be in December.... What do you think should happen?
Some say "He's a whitness to a crime (the crime of somone releasing info to him that was under a court order). others say "It's necessary to keep the integrity of a journalist's sources...
http://www.turnto10.com/news/3929582/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/18/mum.reporter.ap/index.html
An NBC reporter got some secret tapes from someone, a video, which had been ordered byt the court not to distribute.
Well, he was ordered by the court to reveal who broke the court order and gave him the tape. He refused. He was fined $10,000 a day. He (or someone) paid. So, as seeing this as a failure, he was brought to trial today, and was convicted. Sentancing will be in December.... What do you think should happen?
Some say "He's a whitness to a crime (the crime of somone releasing info to him that was under a court order). others say "It's necessary to keep the integrity of a journalist's sources...
http://www.turnto10.com/news/3929582/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/18/mum.reporter.ap/index.html
