Yeah, I signed it...

I signed a petition for a "shield" for journalists. Judith Miller, in jail for 85 days guarding a source, and my grandfather a real estate reporter in NYC, compelled me to. He worked in the Hall of Records, and lost his wheelchair polio confined assistant/son to an elevator accident during WWII, postponed my father's stationing, the fifth brother so, in Europe for grief leave. Daniel Basil O'Connor, a famous lawyer, handled the case and $5000 was exchanged, a lot for the time. My Aunt Nellie's husband law clerked for FDR. Kneejerk criticism of the press is dangerous TV.