Thursday, August 19, 2004

a FAIR media advisory

FAIR, the national media watch group, encourages the reporters and news outlets who have been asked to reveal their sources in the Valerie Plame and Wen Ho Lee cases to cooperate with investigators. Protecting the identities of confidential sources is a journalistic right that should be recognized by the courts, but only when it protects genuine whistle-blowers, not when it shields government wrongdoing.

(emphasis mine)

FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY: FAIR Calls for Revealing Sources in Plame, Lee Cases