Journalism School in the USA teaches you how to write and pretty much nothing else especially if it is structured on the Columbia model. For all this chatter about Non-Disclosure Agreements in the White House, there are several standard ones across the federal government here. They're related to...classified information! Yes, people sign those all the time when they have access to classified information. If you work at the White House, classified information flows rather freely. And yes, they all have "Fight Club" provisions in them that you're not to acknowledge that you even have the security clearance in the first place let alone that you've signed the NDA!

In my job, there is no classified information. The only restricted information I deal with is protected instead by statute (26 USC 6103) which combined with another two sections provide penalties to send me straight to jail (26 USC 7213A) as well as well as civil damages (26 USC 7431) for unauthorized access. Every system I use at work has log-on warnings about those statutes, audit trails in effect, and that I'm being watched at all times. Unauthorized disclosure gets into even nastier statutes and criminal penalties. That's why most failures at work either lead to outright dismissal or jail time. Getting a suspension without pay for any length of time is highly unusual.

I am disgusted by our ignorant news media.