Aram Zucker-Scharff

“When our sources are prosecuted, the news-gathering process is criminalized, so it’s incumbent upon all journalists to speak up.”

– New Yorker’s Jane Mayer quoted in Guardian’s article Justice Department’s pursuit of AP’s phone records is both extreme and dangerous

““There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.””

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