Calm down, your distinction has been noted. I don't like eavesdropping on reporters, happy now?
I don't recall reporters too upset when Newt's private phone conversations were eavesdropped on. The media ran with the story with glee. No concern for privacy then.
It clarifies your position but I think it is a foolish one. Reporter is an entry-level position that any green-on-the-vine graduate can fill. FR is filled with examples of the subversive dealings of the MSM, how many reporters are actually Muhammed Attas writing stories to discredit the one man on earth with the combination of vision and nuts to go after them?
If a reporter needs monitoring, we'd better be monitoring! They aren't some class of human exempt of suspicion.
I don't think I'd like the idea of eavesdropping on all reporter's calls, either. Having said that, I have no problem eavesdropping on known terrorists' calls, regardless of who is on the other end of the line. And, the reporter's knowledge (or lack thereof) of whether he/she is speaking to a terrorist does not concern me either. I'd rather know there isn't another hit on our own soil. And, I know the MSM to be a hotbed of liberal ignorance...the kind of ignorance that would collude with terrorists to bring down America and all she was founded upon.