He was a big fan of LA Confidential and, oddly enough, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.
If a litigant's mere desire to punish a confidential source were enough to force a reporter to disclose the source's identity, then journalism would be seriously jeopardized and laws protecting it would be gutted.
The manufacturer, Exel Trading (which is keeping the exact manufacturing process confidential), was kind enough to send me some samples.
These included concerns about the confidentiality of attending a clinic and of results, wanting to keep STI screening private, not wanting anyone to know and thinking General Practice is not confidential or private enough for chlamydia testing.
And the fact-checking got sloppy enough for Confidential to be caught with its own pants down, as when Maureen O'Hara could use her passport as proof that she had not been canoodling in Grauman's Chinese Theater as the magazine had reported.
Confidential eventually inflicted damage expensive enough to prompt retribution.
Australian media industry figures, the journalists' union and key crossbench senators have argued a compromise deal on data retention legislation does not go far enough to protect confidential sources.
So, it is not secure enough for some confidential applications [14].
Even the fact that reporters use confidential, unnamed sources sometimes absolutely necessary is enough to cause skepticism.
Mr. Rosen, the George Washington law professor, said that that was not enough protection for securing confidential information.
