Huh? What 'Reporter's Privilege'?

Rules of Evidence
U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records

. . . the government contended that calls from the reporters tipped off the charities to impending raids and asset seizures, the investigation appears . . .

. . . wrote for majority, in an opinion joined by Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse. “We see no danger to a free press in so holding. Learning of imminent law enforcement asset freezes/searches and informing targets of them is not an activity essential, or even common, to journalism.”

We've said this before. The only privileges in the Rules of Evidence belong to the clients of professional counsellors or advisers. The privilege is the client's to waive or defend. In Journalism, who is the client?

"Press Freedom" protects Matt Drudge as much as it protects Dan Rather.