Shield laws are intended to protect journalists from legal challenges to their freedom to report the news.
Shield laws are laws intended to protect journalists from legal challenges to their freedom to report the news.
This law protects the reporter from coercion to disclose confidential information or the source of the information.
In 1972, the Supreme Court debated whether or not the reporter should identify the source of his confidential information in his report. Then they came up with this law that protects the confidentiality of the information source.
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