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Title: Big Dig Confidential: Why Massachusetts Needs a Statutory Journalist's Shield Law if It Wants to Keep the Big Stories Coming.
Author : Suffolk University Law Review
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 336 KB

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"A reporter is no better than his source of information. If he can be summoned to testify in secret before a grand jury, his sources will dry up and the attempted exposure, the effort to enlighten the public, will be ended ... [and] the reporter's main function ... will be to pass on to the public the press releases which the various departments of government issue." (1) I. INTRODUCTION