Same rules should apply to reporters

The Daily Herald's editorial urging passage of "The Free Flow of Information Act" is another illustration of media's self-adulation. Why should law prevent a reporter from disclosing sources of information pertinent to some legitimate inquiry, such as a grand jury investigation or a suit for libel?

The only historically recognized privileged communications are those between physician and patient, lawyer and client, and priest and penitent. Except for the media's own implacable sense of self-importance, it seems to me that people today have generally less respect for the media than at anytime in memory.

I think that people often mistrust what they read, considering it biased reporting, and for good reason. Reporters certainly do not deserve any special rights unavailable to the rest of us.

Jack Kenesey

Palatine