Again, I don't know. Maybe the answer isn't that they can't talk altogether, but that regulations should be put in place for communications. For example, if a

Again, I don't know. Maybe the answer isn't that they can't talk altogether, but that regulations should be put in place for communications. For example, if a journalist wants to talk to a government official they can do so whenever the government officla say so, but the _full_ content of the conversation has to be made available to all media companies before any one of them can publish anything. The downside with this approach is that it removes the incentive of any one media company to put much resources into investigative journalism that gets it scoops from conversations with the government. The upside with this approach is that it removes the obvious conflict of interests which is that media companies won't trash the government in order to be fed these scoops (and when I say "the government" I'm including the opposition; one's business model is to be fed by the Republicans (Fox) the other's will be to be fed by the Democrats (MSNBC))