Good piece from Steve Hatchett on state of UK media, as expoosed by Leveson and as familiar to most journalists forever. As a v young, enraged student I collared friends of my mother who, like her, worked for the Express and other Fleet Street tabloids about media responsibility. The answers usually included ‘it’s only a job’; ‘if it didn’t sell papers we wouldn’t do it;’ to ‘ it’s only entertainment’ – all pretty weaselly ways of off-loading moral ownership. Same people often fancied the ‘seeker-after-truth’ image of journalism – another interesting example of ethical identities at work.
Currently working on a paper on professional identities and their impact on ethics – some strong case material here.
Johanna Fawkes Research 
Paul McMullen continues to fascinate (re:his session at Leveson); suspect he is channelling an authentic media perspective like Max Clifford does n PR, saying the unsayable. That spurious moral superiority provides a base for denial of responsibility. instructive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/03/deborah-orr-paul-mcmullan
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