You’re dodging the question here because I asked this:
What then prevents our media discourse from being completely dominated by the kind of people who are able to make these kinds of leaks?
That’s a question about consequences, but you retreated into a normative answer, “soft corruption and sleaze is bad”. OK, so what? Does adding a selectively-enforced standard solve this problem, or does it simply put another weapon in the hands of powerful interests?
To put it another way, are you seriously going to tell me with a straight face that Giuliani’s information dump is Step One of cleaning up soft corruption in DC?