The news media *is* the corruption. It is the news media that gleefully publishes, quite illegally, confidential and top secret leaks from the FBI, Senate, and CIA.
Burn them. Jail each one of them that is in any way a party to such lawbreaking.
Hypocrites they are, but they have a good point. It will be very difficult for the press to investigate corruption if they cannot protect their sources.
It is not a trivial matter for the police and a court to agree to subpoena a journalist to hide corruption. And quite honestly, the press coverage such would generate would if anything only make the scandal that much harder to hide.
More importantly, looking at my copy of the Constitution (at least), I see no special rights and protections extended to self identified journalists by writ of their job.
And judging by the press's recent penchant for making up sources or lying as to what their sources are claimging, such a right is an open invitation to mischief.
The news media *is* the corruption. It is the news media that gleefully publishes, quite illegally, confidential and top secret leaks from the FBI, Senate, and CIA.
Burn them. Jail each one of them that is in any way a party to such lawbreaking.
Receiving stolen property is a felony in every state in the Union, unless I am very much mistaken. This isn't about ''sources'', it's about pure criminal conduct, with the sidebar of deliberate misapplication of the very text of the 1st Amendment in order to create yet another 'victim' class of criminal.