Plain Dealer Writer Explains Dropping of Story

Doug Clifton has been a reporter at the Miami Herald, deputy chief of Knight Ridder's Washington bureau, editor of the Miami Herald and currently serves as the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He recently raised a fuss in journalistic circles by revealing that he was withholding from publication two "profoundly important" stories based on secret documents that the paper had obtained, for fear of subpoenas from a prosecutor seeking the newspaper's sources.