JONAH GOLDBERG ON JOURNALISTIC PRIVILEGE:

But in all of this debate, what people seem to be overlooking is that journalists aren’t always analogous to witnesses to crimes. Sometimes they’re accomplices. Imagine that a vindictive government official wants to embarrass an opponent by leaking his tax returns. He steals them from confidential files and meets a reporter from the Times in a back alley. The reporter publishes them. It seems to me the reporter isn’t a witness, he’s an accessory.

Indeed. My own sense is that journalists should have to testify whenever anyone else, under the same facts, would have to testify.