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You are right, it never did. Yet almost every movie involving scenarios of lawyers and sources has it. As does any TV show and book. It is deeply ingrained in o
by sigzero 13y ago
You are right, it never did. Yet almost every movie involving scenarios of lawyers and sources has it. As does any TV show and book. It is deeply ingrained in our thought process yet it is wrong (from the point of view their is no such protection). It is kind of amazing when you think about it.
- alanctgardner2 13y agoYou're confusing two different things: lawyers enjoy client-attorney privilege at every level in the US. For this to apply you must be a practicing attorney. Journalists don't enjoy similar protections because they aren't a self-regulating profession (there is no law appointing an entity to regulate journalists, as there is one to create the bar organizations).