> Every decent journalist would respect that parts of a tour would be off-the-record without the need for a legally binding document. Granted. Still, you don't

> Every decent journalist would respect that parts of a tour would be off-the-record without the need for a legally binding document. Granted. Still, you don't know who's decent until it's too late. Even decent news organizations can hire utterly odious people, as in the Glass incident. Admittedly, that was more about making information up entirely, but the premise is valid: Even the best-respected news organizations could, potentially, ship you someone just untrustworthy enough that, without the immediate threat of an NDA, they'd leak. Because that's where laws live: Most people would be largely decent without laws. Some few aren't decent even with very immediate penalties hanging over their heads. (This is a disorder in the DSM, in fact.) Others, some unknown fraction, are only decent because of law; that is, they lack much internalized morality, but they understand consequences well enough that laws keep them from doing bad things.