Journalism professor Edward Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2022, argues that the recent court decision against Project Veritas may adversely affect investigative journalism. Rather than rule that Veritas was “a band of Ideologues” gathering “information dishonestly to use in dishonest ways,” the court focused on the fraud of misrepresenting credentials and engaging in illegal wiretapping. Unfortunately, they zeroed in on practices that investigative journalists have used to produce the nation’s finest investigative reports.
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