Well, I'm glad that's taken care of, and by the way, I hope that you havent got into any trouble with your producers about the Hasert story; the WSJ story implies that Disney may lose tax breaks over it; I can only hope that they have the integrity to defend you...

Paying for a free press? Wow. I wonder what Patrick Henry would say. I wonder what Benjamin Franklin would say. I wonder what the signers of the Declaration Of Independence would say, who gave up their fortunes and and their own personal security would say. What a shame that we have gone a 180 from what our Founding Fathers wished for our future. CNN should be honored for standing up against this travesty of so-called justice.

Who cares.

CNN has decided it will not pay? There are more ways to pay than cash. How about your reputation?

Theu don't call it----
"Chicken Noodle News"
for nothing----Thank You!!!!!

It just goes to show how urgently
we need in place A federal Shield law. Journalism is a calling you are a public servant of sorts and
protecting sources and giving a
true factual news story to the general public. Is a must! It is an unwritten law even Benjamin Franklin adhered too.(read his writings) The ethics of journalism
should not change to compensate an
individual, a company, or not even
just because it's the 21st century. God help us if the code of ethics of journalism changes
because of a mere fad or matter
of convenience...

why would any journalist want to protect a source or sources that KNOWINGLY LIED ??? this just does not make any sense to me.

if i had been the recipient of a LIE from a government official about an INNOCENT person, i would blow that government official's identity in a minute - and i could not care less if anybody in the LYING government ever talked to me again.

geez louise, what an awful stand for these journalists ( and their corporate owners ) to take.

at some point, is having a job spreading DECEIT and LIES and SMEAR JOBS about INNOCENT people really a job / career worth having ??

"at some point, is having a job spreading DECEIT and LIES and SMEAR JOBS about INNOCENT people really a job / career worth having ??"

There's no future in that, Karl Rove has the market cornered.

There's always someone making a cheap shot at the Bush Administration. When you look at it, this free press has made more false stories and gotten away with it.

Seems like Karl Rove had nothing to do with the CIA leak, but the liberals just can't stand it.

CNN will be quick to report false stories, then claim no responsibility. Just like typical democrats and other liberal media outlets. CBS prints fake Bush story. USAToday prints not so true telephone story, NYTs/CBS prints not true story about hundreds of tons of ammunition that went mission... and on and on.

Of course they have to protect their sources. If it was found out that they were making stories up, we'd know that the sources are themselves. They are their own sources, of course they have to protect themselves.

If journalists don't want to reveal their sources, they better check the facts before they print what their sources reveal. I understand journalism integrity, but does that mean they should abandon personal integrity??? Journalists need understand how their words affect the people they write about - in this case unfair, illegal, cruel and unusual punishment of an innocent American citizen. What I want to ask Pierre Thomas is who does he have to thank for the "difficult ordeal" he and his family has faced? Sometimes we have to live with the consequences of our own actions, and in the case of Dr. Lee, the consequences of the actions of numerous people, including the press and the government. Life's not fair, is it? If you ask me, no amount of settlement can restore Dr. Lee's loss of privacy. Did anyone protect him as these journalists with "integrity" are protecting their nefarious sources?????