A device needed to wipe journalistic brains...
- 26 Apr 06, 09:36 PM
A about how journalists can go about evading justice when the state comes after your notes. I particularly liked this suggestion...
A Manhattan Project To Create a Neuralizer: "Nothing can expunge knowledge from a journalist's mind," says attorney Bruce Brown of Baker & Hostetler. After all the documents and notes are destroyed and all the phone calls and e-mails are adequately masked, a subpoenaed reporter's brain will still contain the information the prosecutor wants. If the American Society of Newspaper Editors would only fund the development of a "neuralizer," such as was used in the movie Men in Black, reporters could reliably shed every memory about sources after the story goes to press....
However I can testify that such a device already exists. I have seen it work on many a journalist...
...it is called San Miguel. Try saying Bruce Brown of Baker & Hostetler after a few San Miguels and you will see how easy it is to forget what you are supposed to write about.
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Are the rights of a journalist and their sources always sacrosanct? While they are entitled to the 'freedom of the press' as such and need it to gather information and stories, there may be times where such information or sources must be revealed for the greater good.
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