Nick Cohen, you are so much better than this.
Paying the police is acceptable? It is the sort of thing that you expose when other people do it. What makes journalists so special?
There can be no public interest in creating a financially corrupt relationship with the forces of law and order.
Not to mention the "flirting" that has also been going on.
Et tu, David, writing "pay" instead of "bribe"?
ReplyDeleteThey are complaining that some of it goes back 10 years. Those were the Blair years and moreover the period after 9/11 but before Iraq. In return for unconditional support of Blair, News International had carte blanche. But not any more. Those days are gone.