The press goes in and out of fashion. It will only take a scandal, only possible through anonymous sources, for it all to turn back the other way and then everyone will be talking about the glory of the Watergate journalism by Woodward and Bernstein, and so on. Although at the moment I would say that the US press is going through a most peculiar time where the extremes are the mainstream and there is occasionally a blatant refusal to even try to be objective. Plus of course the recent focus on celebrity pap. It'll all come back at some point, but in the meantime I still argue that if journalists want these rights, they should be prepared to fight for them, rather than rely on laws working in a very difficult and complex area. Kieren