For years, I’ve had to tell sometimes skeptical friends and family members that real journalists don’t do that. We are generally uncouth, sometimes lazy and screw up in plenty of other ways–not least when we drop stories because they seem too complicated or might make readers think we’re taking sides–but we don’t act like common criminals.
Rob is talking about the whole Rupert Murdoch scandal. It doesn’t seem to matter which industry you talk about, there are always some unscrupulous people. Rob is definitely one of the good guys.