Amy Goodman, host of the syndicated “Democracy Now!” news program, and two of her producers filed suit against the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and other defendants Wednesday over their arrests while covering the 2008 Republican National Convention. The three were among an estimated 40 to 50 journalists who were arrested covering street protests [...]

NS : Is it always a journalist’s duty to report the truth, even if it may damage innocents? Seymour Hersh : I’m a total First Amendment Jeffersonian. It’s their job to keep it secret and my job to find it out and make it public. But once one gets some information, one doesn’t run pell-mell [...]