My wife used to be a closet News of the World reader until she got upset at their 'outing' of a cross-dressing bank manager, who subsequently lost his job and probably a great deal more too, after which she, my wife, refused to buy or read the newspaper ever again. I must admit it did confuse me rather as I thought that that was the kind of story she read the paper for in the first place!

However, whilst I'm a great believer in freedom of speech and I support the concept of free press, it does piss me off terribly when on the receiving end of incorrect media reporting, as happened to Fox Kalomaski recently at the hands of the trade press. There is a fine line between responsible reporting and creating news for news sake and it strikes me that some journalists, hopefully the minority, don't give a monkey's what happens from the fall out created when they lob a misquoted piece of editorial into the marketplace.

It was always my belief that journalists wanted to do their jobs in the first instance to help inform the public about the real things going on in life all around them and if they continue to report inaccurate stories, which basically means they're not doing their jobs properly, then I strongly suggest they should apply for a fictional scriptwriting job on Eastenders.