Pretty Juvenal
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of computer hacking by News International staff have declined to "give a running commentary" on their probe, batting away MP Tom Watson's narration of the saga. The Labour backbencher and member of the culture, media and sport select committee had said earlier on Twitter: The …
..., it kind of permanently puts the kibosh on NI's attempts to limit the toxic overspill to the defunct NotW, doesn't it? First it was one investigator and we didn't know, then it was one journalist and he didn't have approval, then a few bad apples (ditto), then one bad paper but we've closed it... It'll become almost impossible to argue that there isn't a general culture of lawlessness at NI, won't it?
And you think this behaviour is confined to the Murdoch group? How charmingly naif.
Every group of journalists in the country has always included a smaller or larger subset prepared to use more or less dodgy methods to get a good story, such as 'blagging' and 'guessing' voicemail or web mail passwords. In so far as they broke the law and are unable to produce a convincing 'public interest' defence they should be punished appropriately.