Well, again, this was being offered to us by our Conservative colleagues to reassure us that they were not going to undermine the independence of journalists doing investigative work. What they've told us, however, what they've given us, is that they would simply protect the identity of any confidential journalistic source. That identity means simply a person, and we would assume that the name would be blacked out anyway
In terms of the issue of sources, it's not just the person. It's the work that's done to build the case for the story. That's what they're leaving wide open with this. They're simply saying it's a person and that's what's going to be excluded. We're not getting the larger issue, which is the ability of the newsroom and the institution to say, “No, we are not going to put forward the activities that the journalists were involved in to protect the overall integrity of their work”.
I find that this falls very short of what we were promised.