The Society of Professional Journalists wants an end...
The Society of Professional Journalists wants an end to the phone metadata surveillance by the National Security Agency. It joined an amicus brief from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press asking the Supreme Court to grant a preliminary…
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injunction to the American Civil Liberties Union in the ACLU v. Clapper case, said a Friday press release (http://bit.ly/18kWkNJ). The brief made a point of “emphasizing the deleterious effect that the NSA’s program has on the media’s ability to report on highly sensitive issues that are of great interest to the public,” it said, saying “the most meaningful stories in journalism -- particularly those related to national security -- have relied on confidential sources, and that constant government surveillance makes those confidential sources increasingly hesitant to provide information to journalists knowing that their identities could easily be discovered.”