A search in Boise revives concerns about protecting sources
When the Supreme Court ruled in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily two years ago that police had the right to make unannounced searches of newsrooms for information useful in criminal investigations, the outcry from journalists, publishers and civil libertarians across the country was deafening. Of several Burger Court decisions that have narrowed the free-press protections of the First Amendment, they believed that this one presented the greatest threat to a reporter's ability to protect confidential sources. But then, as news organizations braced for an anticipated wave of court-inspired raids, a curious thing happened: none...
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