SF Chronicle Reporters ... time for jail

[Jeff_Rake]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2597854

Too bad.

 

[Gomer]

Sad, but not at all surprising. I'll be more interested to hear how long they'll have to stay behind bars. Eighteen months is a brutally long time.

 

[jgmacg]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/21/BAGPKLA0CT10.DTL

 

[zeke12]

forking terrible.

 

[jfs1000]

Don't u think 18 months is overly puntative? I am not in favor of sunshine laws (that makes journalists a protected class, and I don't think that is right), but if he was selling drugs and robbing people he will get less time.

18 months, for committing no crime. That is not fair. Why doesn't the government actually do some investigative work. Stop trying to coerce journalists to do their jobs.

 

[indiansnetwork]

If they throw these two in jail it will just make a mockery out of the whole "fact finding" business that is professional journalism.

 

[5A]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm awfully proud of them. It takes a lot of guts to stand up for what is right, particularly when they are going to send you to jail. Sure, they made some money off the book, and they have definitely received their fair share of publicity since its publishing.

But it would have been easy to pull a hit-and-run, taking the money and their successes and spilling out their sources. They kept their word on the confidentiality of their sources, and that's something that not ALL journalists would do. Some might say they would, but I'd like to see it.

I tip my cap to them. I hope this gets resolved sooner rather than later.

I feel the same way.

I'd like to think I would do the same thing in their shoes, but I'm glad I've never had to face those decisions.

 

[Cosmo]

fork.

 

[KP]

Good luck to them both, may they keep holding their head high and their lips sealed.

And 18 months is a long time for what they did when you consider in RI the one of the nightclub owners - the one who used to be a reporter - is getting 0 jailtime and his brother is getting 4 years at a minimum security prison from a fire that killed 100.

 

[Moland Spring]

C'mon.... federal shield law!

 

[Johnsonville]

What is sad is that Conte, Greg Anderson and the guy that created the drugs only got four months in jail, but reporters get 18 months.

 

[jgmacg]

They're still free pending their appeal. 18 months is the maximum if the circuit court upholds Judge White's finding.