I disagree here. There has to be room for information exchange between people and media or media will be reduced to digging through cans. This journalist will find that no one will talk to her going forward because everything is fair game. She will find her source of leads drying up and in the end will be rendered ineffective. It’s one thing to approach someone with a set of facts and confront them with it and it’s another when someone asks for a lack of attribution.
I think the information exchange should also include the knowledge that this relationship is like the scorpion and the frog, with the media and the powerful taking turns playing the different roles.
The msm does dig through cans. Look what they did to Foley of FL. They protected the klinton boy until Drudge spilled the beans. Most knew all about him when he fiddled in Arkansas.