 The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again. |
| I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. |
| The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them. |
| It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this. |
| My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case. |
| This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. |
| I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York. |
| I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. |
| I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it. |
| I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. |
| I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that. |
