Litigation
Mar. 15, 2007
Prickly Dilemma
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - The two San Francisco Chronicle reporters nearly jailed in the BALCO case are still taking flak for using a biased source. That criticism is wrong: All sources -- at least the good ones -- are biased.
By Peter Scheer
Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada can't get a break. For nearly a year, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters lived under the constant and real threat of imprisonment - like a sword of Damocles - for refusing to name their source for grand-jury testimony in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroids-in-sports investigation.
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