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A U.S. District Judge has found former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in contempt of court for not revealing the identities of people she talked to for a story on the 2001 anthrax attacks.
YES
# Enforcing the law must, at times, outweigh the need to protect any confidential source.
# No doubt that investigative reporting is necessary to keep the principles of free and democratic society alive but allowing reporters' a privilege over national security can be catastrophic.
NO
# Reporters rely on regular confidential sources to burrow into their beats; if they can be arbitrarily required to identify all their sources, it's likely they won't have any.
# The ability to publish confidentially sourced information about our government’s practices and policies is one of the bedrock principles of a free, open and democratic society.
