Judges get all worked up when anyone violates their gag orders, but a journalist doing her job shouldn’t go to jail for it:
While the press in Colorado is consumed with its coverage of the capital murder prosecution of James Holmes for the slaughter he perpetrated in a movie theater in the town of Aurora on July 20, 2012, a related court proceeding is taking place in the same courthouse that the local and national press would be wise to cover.
My Fox News colleague, Jana Winter, an experienced journalist of impeccable integrity, is being threatened with incarceration by a Colorado judge unless she reveals the sources for the excellent and highly newsworthy piece she wrote for FoxNews.com revealing the existence of a notebook written by Mr. Holmes before the murders and sent to his psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton.
Isn’t Assange “in jail” for not releasing his sources? Yeah, I know he’s in an embassy without freedom of movement……. The problem with what passes for journalism today is that much of it isn’t sourced at all. Reporters just make crap up out of thin air. Maybe we need to throw a few journalists into jail until they reveal their sources? And leave them there unless they can come up with a ‘real’ source. Gitmo might be a great place to house them?