Greg Brock (West Wing)
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Greg Brock is a fictional White House correspondent for the New York Times played by Sam Robards on the television series The West Wing. First appearing in Season 5, Brock has since become one of the most regularly referred to White House correspondents, second only to Danny Concannon.
Towards the end of Season 6 of the show, the New York Times printed a story, written by Brock, alleging the existence of a classified military space shuttle which could be used to help three astronauts on the International Space Station that are running out of oxygen. The leak was initially suspected to be White House Chief of Staff C.J. Cregg, whose phone records showed a surprisingly large number of calls to Greg Brock over much of her tenure as White House Chief of Staff to that point. In the 7th season of the show, Brock went to jail after being held in contempt of court for failing to reveal the name of his source. White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler eventually confessed to the leak, saying that he acted alone, and that Brock was the only reporter to whom he leaked the information. The storyline regarding the leak and subsequent investigation has been compared by some to the Valerie Plame affair.[1][2]
