Reporters aren't above the law

Michael Kinsley wrote in LATimes The courts have spoken in the Plame case. Why does the New York Times think it doesn't have to listen?.... For all the grand talk about the 1st Amendment, this isn't about the right of the press to publish information. It is about a right to keep information secret. The government has secrets too. Even the New York Times acknowledges that sometimes the government's right to secrecy is more important (wartime troop movements is its single, melodramatic example). And even the federal government recognizes the social utility of a vigorous press. That's why it goes out of its way to avoid demanding trial evidence from journalists in most circumstances.

But when the courts rule you must testify to a Grand Jury, and once your appeals have gone all they way to the Supreme Court, you still have to testify, or go to jail.