Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense Attorney James Hudson, 36, had his own explanation for his clients' conduct. "These pore little old country boys," Hudson told the all-white jury, "entered into a conspiracy all right-a conspiracy to protect you and me, to keep racial violence from tearing apart Athens, Georgia." Whether the jury was convinced remained a secret. Though a verdict was reached, U.S. District Judge William A. Bootle ordered it sealed, pending this week's trial-on the same federal conspiracy charges-of three other Athens Klansmen accused of harassing Negroes...
...crux of the case involves an important conflict of loyalties. Should a reporter reveal the names of people when they could lead to the arrest of a criminal, or should he protect his sources and be prepared to go to jail. Miss Buchanan faces a six-month jail term and a fine...
...regardless of whether they are controversial or illegal. The press can be an essential link between society and its marginal members, a form of communication which can promote understanding between the law and the lawbreakers. The press cannot perform this function if it does not have the right to protect its sources--without this right, talking to a reporter would be tantamount to confessing to a judge...
...there is no excuse for the law; members of the press should turn every Buchanan hearing into a test case to pressure legislation which allows reportorial confidence. In the final analysis of costs to the society, it would be more expensive to block the channels of communication than to protect confidential sources...
...Emerald-- the newspaper currently under attack. Last year he told an Oregon journalism class, "Don't break a confidence." This year, Frye has decided that you should break a confidence "when ordered to do so by the court." What he had meant before was that a reporter should protect sources such as the holders of public office--like District Attorney Frye for example...