In statement released on Tuesday [1], the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon, issued this warning against the Obama Justice Department investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen: "U.S. government efforts to prosecute leakers by obtaining information from journalists has a chilling effect domestically and sends a terrible message to journalists around the world who are fighting to resist government intrusion."
The statement comes even as ABC and CBS News have failed to make any mention [2] of the controversy, while NBC has only provided a little over a minute of coverage.
On Monday's Special Report, Fox News senior political analyst and veteran journalist Brit Hume condemned the Justice Department [3] for having "gone where federal prosecutors have rarely if ever gone before" by going after Rosen.
The CPJ also sent a letter [4]
to Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday protesting the seizure of
Associated Press phone records during a separate leak investigation.
-- Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. Click here [5] to follow Kyle Drennen on Twitter.