always protect your source

"Saying the free flow of information must not be choked off, the House on Tuesday took up a media shield bill to protect the confidentiality of reporters' sources in most federal court cases. The White House, warning that the bill would encourage leaks of classified information, threatened a veto. (taken from editorandpublisher.com

And here I was thinking that this was a standard thing done to protect journalists and their sources, and the public's right to information. Stupid little me... Let's just hope the WH doesn't get its way with this.