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Matt and Judy: Update

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  • Time Inc. announced this morning that they will, in fact, turn over Matt Cooper’s notes to the court pursuant to a court order. This highlights a very interesting and heretofore unexplored angle: the conflict between the idividual journalist and the agenda of its corporate employer. The WSJ looks into it here. If they didn’t hand it over, Cooper would face jail time; Time would face “a very large fine“. So while we debate whether the state has the right to compel violation of [still murkily-defined and not constitutionally protected] journalistic privilege, there is the completely different question of whether a corporation can or should do so itself (well, clearly it can but should it? And what would happen if Cooper turned around and sued Time Inc.,
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