When spin doctors become the story or spokesmen need a spokesman, we know the game is
up. So say Alastair Campbell and Andy Coulson, and they should know. So what happens when journalists become the story?
The re-opening of the investigation into News of the World phone-hacking case has sent a chill across Fleet Street. Collectively, journalists really had hoped this would go away. A prurient interest in the private lives of stars and public figures is nothing new. The pressures of a tabloid newsroom are immense, and it should come as no surprise that journalists looking for an edge were prepared to take such technological liberties. But no one could have predicted that this would snowball to quite this extent.
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