Celebrity Approved
Posted 18.01.2012
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UK
The majority of stories in weekly celebrity magazines are pre-agreed with the stars involved, the Leveson inquiry has heard. Giving evidence Rosie ...
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The majority of stories in weekly celebrity magazines are pre-agreed with the stars involved, the Leveson inquiry has heard. Giving evidence Rosie ...
The public don't feel merciful, and nor should they. The cynical banishment of moral truth has long undermined not just our journalistic canon, but social dialogue, justice and democracy.
In the lexicon of journalism the word "unprecedented" has reached cliché status. But I make no apology for using it to describe both the allegation against the News of the World that it hacked into a murdered girl's voicemail messages and the public response to it.
When I said, with a glowing "Oh ho!", that The Huffington Post had asked me to blog for them, I received minimal "Oh ho" back. "Write about unpaid journalism," snarked my Twitterfeed, apparently confusing writing the odd piece with being put in a sweatshop and lashed until a Pulitzer came out.
