would that lesson be publish....
quote:
A lawyer representing victims of the News of the World phone hacking scandal has weighed into New Zealand’s ‘teapot tape’ debate, defending the secret recording as “good journalism”.
Mark Lewis represents the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler along with others who claim their phones were hacked by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
He says the recorded conversation between Prime Minister John Key and ACT candidate John Banks should be made public.
“There is a difference between the News of the World hacking into someone's phone to find out private information and seemingly - whether accidental or on purpose - effectively a journalist investigating some political statement,” he says.
“That's something that is in the public interest and sounds like it should be reported without the unfavourable comparison to what was clearly a criminal act.”
Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/News-of-the-World-victims-lawyer-calls-for-release-of-teapot-tape/tabid/419/articleID/232827/Default.aspx#ixzz1dkCiBo4e
and now we see the cameraman being attacked... play the ball not the man (yeah right)