Off the Record The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources

Name: Off the Record The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources
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ISBN: 9780374531188

ISBN-10: 0374531188

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Authors: Norman Pearlstine

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Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House’s war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of the press itself. Norman Pearlstine takes us behind the scenes of one of the most controversial courtroom dramas of our time. When Pearlstine—as editor in chief of Time Inc.—agreed to give prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a reporter’s notes of a conversation with a “confidential source,” he was vilified for betraying the freedom of the press. But Pearlstine shows that “Plamegate” was not the clear case it seemed to be. In his “vigorously written” inside story (The Washington Post), Pearlstine daringly challenges the conventional wisdom that freedom of the press is an…

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List price: $27.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc. from 1995 to 2005, was previously the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. He trained as a lawyer before making his career as a journalist. He is now a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group and lives in Manhattan.



Preface


Chronology



Anonymous Sources



The Plame Episode



Patrick Fitzgerald



Subpoenas and Secrecy



A Journalist's Education



Branzburg's Long Shadow



Abrams v. Olson



The Pentagon Papers and Watergate



Are Journalists Above the Law?



Rove's Ground Rules



Complying with the Courts



Matt Cooper Testifies



Dealing with the Fallout



Welcome Support



Judith Miller-In and Out of Jail



Waivers



Why We Need a Federal Shield Law



Editorial Guidelines



Scooter Libby's Indictment



Rove Gets a Pass



The Government Escalates Its Assault on the Press



Reviving the Espionage Act



Prosecutorial Excess



Mike Price Sues for Libel



Wen Ho Lee



Libby Is Convicted


Conclusion


Afterword



Editorial Guidelines


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography


Index