The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.
I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.
I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.
Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.
We have paid the police for information in the past.
Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.