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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Expose a Scandal, Face a Prison Term

Yet another shining example of why the U.S. keeps sliding lower and lower in the world with regards to press freedoms.

Joe Mozingo writes in The Los Angeles Times:

At a private reception at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 30, 2005, President Bush praised two newspaper reporters for their award-winning stories on steroid use in professional sports.

"You've done a service," Bush twice told Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada of the San Francisco Chronicle.

But today the two journalists, in a standoff with the Bush administration, face longer terms in prison than the combined sentences of all the defendants convicted in the steroid scandal they helped expose.

posted by Fergie @ 11/14/2006 11:07:00 AM