I wonder if Judith Miller and Li’l Kim are gonna be cellmates. Miller goes to the pokey for not talking:
WASHINGTON, July 6 – A federal judge today ordered Judith Miller of The New York Times to be jailed immediately after she again refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative.
… and Li’l Kim for the wrong kind of talking:
The hip-hop star, born Kimberly Jones, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for perjury and must turn herself in to authorities on September 19th. Kim was convicted in March of lying to a federal grand jury to protect two associates in relation to a 2001 shooting against rival rap outfit Capone-N-Noreaga outside New York City hip-hop radio station Hot 97 in which one man was injured.
But also for sticking to the rappers’ code of silence:
In sentencing Lil’ Kim for perjury, the judge cited the unsolved slaying of Notorious B.I.G as evidence of a troubling code of silence in the hip-hop community.
”It’s because people did what you did, that we still don’t know who killed him,” he said.
What’s the difference between the rappers’ code of silence and the journalists’ code? And if journalists are to be shielded by the law from penalty for sticking to their code, don’t rappers (and Mafiosi) deserve the same kind of protection? It seems that they do.