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Judge Fines Ex-Fox News Reporter for Not Revealing Sources

24 points by ImJamal 3y ago

h2odragon 3y ago
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fsagx 3y ago
Seems like she is having a tough year. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4481433-cbs-faces-uproar-after-seizing-investigative-journalists-files/ https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4481433-cbs-faces-uproa...
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workingdog 3y ago
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- malfist 3y ago
  Do you see any comments here on hacker news celebrating this ruling? No? Then kindly refrain from inflammatory disparagement to half the population in the US.
drewcoo 3y ago
Most states (and the District of Columbia) have shield laws. But that doesn't matter because there's no federal shield law. A lack of federal law trumps actual state laws. Something just doesn't seem right to me here.
orwin 3y ago
This is worst than abnormal in a democracy. If this was a case of libel against a person, asking for proof (thus source) would still be sketchy, but understandable (the sources are not the primary goal of the discovery, truthfulness of the reporting is). This is _not_ the case. This is clearly an overreach, and if this was in Europe, I would have helped ngo to present the case in front of the ECHR, as this seems like a human right violation. Do you have an equivalent in the US?
- passing_by_and 3y ago
  The USA executes people with impunity anywhere in the world. It has secret torture cells where people disappear or just die. Internally, it jails people for wrong think, manufactures terrorist threats, forces businesses to filter and send data to allow sweeping surveillance. It then spreads democracy by conducting coup operations, selling drugs, fixing elections, or if none of that works, plain old bombs work fine. At the same time running the most sophisticated propaganda campaigns in the world with the full support of almost everyone who reads this website. Why would you imagine that this system would have justice or functioning courts?
paleotrope 3y ago
Ex-Fox news reporter so it's ok, the NYT signal,s even though she was last employed at CBS.

24 points by ImJamal 3y ago

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Seems like she is having a tough year. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4481433-cbs-faces-uproar-after-seizing-investigative-journalists-files/ https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4481433-cbs-faces-uproa...

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workingdog 3y ago

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malfist 3y ago
Do you see any comments here on hacker news celebrating this ruling? No? Then kindly refrain from inflammatory disparagement to half the population in the US.

drewcoo 3y ago

Most states (and the District of Columbia) have shield laws. But that doesn't matter because there's no federal shield law. A lack of federal law trumps actual state laws. Something just doesn't seem right to me here.

orwin 3y ago

This is worst than abnormal in a democracy. If this was a case of libel against a person, asking for proof (thus source) would still be sketchy, but understandable (the sources are not the primary goal of the discovery, truthfulness of the reporting is). This is _not_ the case. This is clearly an overreach, and if this was in Europe, I would have helped ngo to present the case in front of the ECHR, as this seems like a human right violation. Do you have an equivalent in the US?

passing_by_and 3y ago
The USA executes people with impunity anywhere in the world. It has secret torture cells where people disappear or just die. Internally, it jails people for wrong think, manufactures terrorist threats, forces businesses to filter and send data to allow sweeping surveillance. It then spreads democracy by conducting coup operations, selling drugs, fixing elections, or if none of that works, plain old bombs work fine. At the same time running the most sophisticated propaganda campaigns in the world with the full support of almost everyone who reads this website. Why would you imagine that this system would have justice or functioning courts?

paleotrope 3y ago

Ex-Fox news reporter so it's ok, the NYT signal,s even though she was last employed at CBS.