y to protect the identity of sources, journalists would be greatly handicapped in exposing corruption, dishonesty, waste, incompetence and misbehaviour by public officials.</p><p>The Press Council is concerned the laws would crush investigative journalism.</p><p>“These legitimate concerns cannot be addressed effectively short of exempting journalists and media organisations,” says president David Weisbrot.</p><p>The media union is adamant journalists’ metadata must be exempted from the law. That’s w