I read The San Francisco Gate every morning as part of my my get-ready-to-work ritual, mostly, I admit, for Jon Carroll's fine column, which teaches that wit and grace mean that you don't actually have to have anything to write about (but when he does have something to write about, it's always a corker). Now I've added the link below, which traces the adventures of reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, who had the audacity to break the BALCO juicing scandal."Their stories on the doping scandal, published in 2004, helped lead to congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball, major league baseball rewriting its drug testing policy and raised awareness across the country about the danger and abuse of steroids among young athletes, including those in college and high school."The DOJ has subpoenaed their notes and is demanding they surrender their sources. Their paper is standing behind them—and, even better, blogging their battle as it develops. I'm going to check in every day and root, root, root for the First Amendment.
