Herald: WBZ fires Jonic after FBI story flap

[Larry Weil]

At 11:22 AM -0400 8/4/05, Bob Nelson wrote:
>http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=96528
>
>The Herald reports that longtime WBZ reporter Flo Jonic was fired
>yesterday after the station refused to run the story she did on
>potential security flaws at the FBI's Boston office (AND
>after she expressed her displeasure in a memo to the entire newsroom staff).
>
>Interesting situation here: "(t)he FBI told WBZ that reporting such a
>story would be reckless and could put lives in danger". What's more
>important, our security or freedom of the press? I'd hate to see our
>adversaries take advantage of info like this getting out (security
>flaws at the fed agency) but there's also a chilling effect on the
>press. As the talk radio expression goes, "there's a slippery slope
>here..."

There's also the point that if such leaks are not reported, there is 
no pressure for them to be fixed, thus putting more lives in danger 
in the future.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH