Newspapers - Irresponsible Reporting

[Future17]

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Surely that would be the hundreds of crooked MPs who were exposed by the, er, media?

The media didn't actually expose the expenses scandal in the true sense. They didn't do the invetigating - they were handed the information by someone outside the media who had become aware of it and was seeking to have it published.

[Beefster]

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The media didn't actually expose the expenses scandal in the true sense. They didn't do the invetigating - they were handed the information by someone outside the media who had become aware of it and was seeking to have it published.

If it wasn't for Heather Brooke, a journalist and campaigner, the guy who leaked the information would never have been in a position to leak it. The information was only being processed as a result of her work to increase parliamentary transparency.