(It’s the 50th anniversary of Private Eye – and one of the many brilliant examples of satirical journalism that it has published over the years was “XXX – the man they couldn’t gag”. As with many of their spoofs this was taken from the example of a tabloid journalist who would brag about publishing regardless of any pressure they were put under. Of course within the Private Eye story the journalist could be bought by a decent lunch and would drop his stories under any pretext.
Well blogging – as one of the newer forms of electronic journalism – has shorter traditions than print but I am sure there are blogs that are proud of the fact that they would publish the truth irrespective of whatever slings and arrows might be deployed to stop them. I suspect that there may even be some blogs that have at their masthead “XXX – the woman (or man) they could not gag”.
