[RetroWarrior]

Journalists should be required to abide the same laws as everyone else. I don't have any protection from naming sources if ordered by the courts and nether do you. Why should journalists have the 'right' to disobey court orders of disclosure?

[Alberta's Child]

What makes the whole thing preposterous is that there is no such thing as a "journalist" in a strictly legal sense. There is no licensing board for journalists, and no means of separating a "good" journalist from a "bad" one in any objective manner.

If such a "journalistic immunity" were ever enshrined in law, then any person could avoid testifying in any legal matter simply by posting a story on the internet about the case in question and calling himself a journalist.