Supreme Court of Iowa June 12, 2002, 00-1585 (Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier v. Hawkeye Community College)

STREIT, Justice.

A local community college wants newspaper editors to tell who ratted them out. The editors stand firm and would be solaced by the words of a past newsperson:

If your editorial writer ... “takes the fence,” thinking of the dangers of antagonizing somebody or other, including the publisher’s wife, he can’t write anything worth reading and it is not worth while hiring him

H.L.