Media Lies - Journalists must testify -: "Justice Byron White’s opinion for the five-to-four majority began, “The issue in these cases is whether requiring newsmen to appear and testify before state or federal grand juries abridges the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment. We hold that it does not.” White’s opinion was a scathing dismissal of the journalists’ position. “The preference for anonymity of those confidential informants involved in actual criminal conduct is presumably a desire to escape criminal prosecution, and this preference, while understandable, is hardly deserving of constitutional protection,” he wrote. In short, he held for the Court that the First Amendment provides no “exemption from the ordinary duty of all other citizens to furnish relevant information to a grand jury performing an important public function.”"

Journalists are not "above the law," nor outside it. No Shield Law.