From On the Media: Seditious Conspiracy

Published: June 13, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'On January 6th, 2021, \\u201cOn the Media\\u201d reporter Micah Loewinger recorded the secret communications of the Oath Keepers on a walkie-talkie app called Zello. After reporting on the findings, Loewinger received a subpoena calling on him to testify in the first Oath Keepers criminal trial last year. In conversations with \\u201cOn the Media\\u201d host Brooke Gladstone, \\u201cDeath, Sex & Money\\u201d host Anna Sale, and Roger Parloff, a senior editor at Lawfare, Loewinger grapples with the consequences of his reporting, and explores what happens when a journalist is forced to testify in court. Plus, Loewinger looks at the nineteen-seventies Supreme Court case United States v. Caldwell to understand the legal precedents for journalists being called on to testify in federal investigations, the limits of First Amendment privileges for the press, and the sometimes tenuous relationship between journalists and the government.\\xa0\\nThis episode originally aired on \\u201cOn the Media\\u201d on May 26, 2023.'