The Telegraph journalists who posed as constituents to entrap MPs may have committed a criminal offence
Two journalists misrepresented themselves as constituents of members of parliament to gain access to appointments at their advice surgeries, and proceeded secretly to record their conversations with the MPs – conversations from which their editors then quoted selectively in prominent front-page stories. Is this ethical? Is it even legal?
Read the whole story here.
And the follow up...
Vince Cable 'quite angry' about Daily Telegraph sting
Business secretary says paper's decision to send journalists posing as mothers to his surgery has done 'great damage' to relationship between MPs and constituents
Read the whole article here.
Now a response to the situation from a blogger - talktorex.co.uk:
In which the word 'irony' is used so ironically that it ceases to mean anything
I have already ranted about former-broadsheet-turned-caky-rag The Daily Telegraph's increasingly hypocritical, unjournalistic and exploitative content, in a blog post which caused one petulant reviewer to suggest that I have a 'tin ear for journalistic irony'.
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