Source protection is refusing to name the person who told you. Insist on source protection, source protection laws, a matter of source protection.
Without it few people would tell a journalist anything that mattered, which is the argument for the whole practice. Reporters have gone to prison rather than break source protection.
1nounsource protectionRefusing to name the person who told you.
“The paper fought the order on grounds of source protection.”
source protection is a principle.
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