According to BBC news, Telegraph Editor Will Lewis doesn’t think the constant barrage his newspaper has given our MPs of late has caused irreperable damage to the UK’s Parliament.
“This is not my fault. I am the messenger who happened to be able to get this stuff and deliver it to people who should have been told this by MPs themselves.”
Of course. Don’t shoot the messenger. Even if the messenger has used the information he gained through methods no-one can guarantee the legitimacy or legality of, and used the information to further his own income by spreading the dossier of information over weeks or even months?
The Telegraph has enjoyed being on it’s high horse over the last few weeks. It’s enjoyed the damage it has done to the reputation of ALL MPs. It’s enjoyed the income it’s got from extra sales immensely.
“The principle we were establishing here was that I know this information was true and the readers must know this as quickly as possible because this has gone on for too long unnoticed.”
Does ‘as quickly as possible’ include as many weeks as the Telegraph has spent covering expenses? I really do think the Telegraph deserves to lose a lot of respect for the way it’s chosen to masquerade a huge income drive as an exercise in the public interest.
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