Journalist Prosecution Debate

You can't make a reporter doing his job a crime.ADD: Further details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5924505

Got you, so, it's super sensitive for everyone, except for journalists who can freely publicize that type of information.

Nope.Journalism is a constitutionally protected activity that is a cornerstone of democracy. Without an informed public, democracy cannot work. Attempting to subvert that by threatening journalists is flat out wrong.If you are a business owner, sure, you can legally investigate journalists. But that is very different than threatening to leak material about them to influence press coverage.Also, your "turnabout is fair play" logic is ridiculous. Greenwald got the secrets of the

In the US the distinction is made so that journalists exposing misdeeds from people in power cannot be prosecuted since the value of the information is too high for the public.

This is embarrassing, so lets pretend it's a crime for the reporter to report the truth. This tactic might work for the NSA, but I hope it doesn't work here.

The journalist seems reckless for publishing a photo of the journal. Transcribe that to protect your source.

Wouldn't it be even more dangerous to report them to a journalist?

Wouldn't that fall under freedom of the press?

Wouldn't there be repercussions for discussing an ongoing investigation with a journalist?

Agreed. It's strange that people get all up in arms when the government does this for suspects and yet when some random journalists start snooping around, trying to dig dirt up on you, and blackmails you to write a story (and then proceed to make money from said story), nobody seems to care. Ridiculous. Forbes should be chastised for this.