事件的结束:记者和消息来源之间的关系能否在大规模监视和攻击性泄密起诉中幸存下来?

Anthony L. Fargo
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记者和法官都承认,机构媒体的使命之一是揭露政府的秘密。这项任务通常涉及从那些一旦被发现将面临危险的来源获取信息。记者历来冒着受到法律惩罚的风险来保护消息来源的身份,但现在监控技术允许调查人员通过他们的通信记录揭露泄密者。与此同时,前两届总统政府加大了起诉机密信息泄密者的力度。本文考察了记者和消息来源日益增加的风险氛围,以及记者与消息来源的关系能否在风险中幸存下来。在审查了最近的泄密起诉及其引发的令人不安的法律和道德问题后,文章得出结论,法律解决方案不太可能。然而,记者可以通过将源头保护作为更高的道德优先事项,并积极引导源头避免被发现,来对抗对源头的寒蝉效应。
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The End of the Affair: Can the Relationship Between Journalists and Sources Survive Mass Surveillance and Aggressive Leak Prosecutions?
One mission of the institutional media, recognized by journalists and judges alike, is to uncover the government’s secrets. This mission often involves obtaining information from sources who would face perils if identified. Journalists have historically risked legal penalties to protect sources’ identities, but now surveillance technology allows investigators to unmask leakers through their communication records. Meanwhile, the last two presidential administrations expanded efforts to prosecute leakers of classified information. This article examines the increasingly risky atmosphere for journalists and sources and whether the reporter-source relationship can survive the risks. After examining recent leak prosecutions and the troubling legal and ethical issues they raise, the article concludes that legal solutions are unlikely. However, journalists can combat chilling effects on sources by making source protection a higher ethical priority and by proactively guiding sources to ways they can avoid detection.
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期刊介绍: The societal, cultural, economic and political dimensions of communication, including the freedoms of speech and press, are undergoing dramatic global changes. The convergence of the mass media, telecommunications, and computers has raised important questions reflected in analyses of modern communication law, policy, and regulation. Serving as a forum for discussions of these continuing and emerging questions, Communication Law and Policy considers traditional and contemporary problems of freedom of expression and dissemination, including theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues inherent in the special conditions presented by new media and information technologies.
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