These have not been happy times. I really am aghast as I look at what's been happening.

The inescapable conclusion that some could draw here is that after a certain period of time, when the reporter is fed up with being in prison, she will make a concession, ... I'm not saying that's what happened here. But that's the appearance. The danger is it will embolden others in more common garden-variety investigations to say to the judge, 'All you have to do is stick the reporter in jail, and we'll get what we want.'

It will be, if not a master class, at least a law school exam on the reporters' privilege.

The inescapable conclusion that some could draw here is that, after a certain period of time, when the reporter is fed up with being in prison, she will make a concession. I'm not saying that's what happened here. But that's the appearance.

I think this is just bizarre.

If that's being done in such a way as to create an inaccurate reflection of what the full article said, then it does raise ethical issues,