News of the News of the World

By Graeme Whitfield on Jul 9, 09 11:12 PM

I'm not bugging your phone, honest: budgets in here are so tight that we can barely afford our own phones, never mind hacking into other people's.

Today's Guardian story about an alleged culture of illegal phone bugging at the News of the World has been great fun. For journos on local papers, it's very much a case of how the other half lives.

Some people will, I'm sure, tar all journalists with the same brush and assume we're all up to the dark arts. I can assure you that here at the Journal and Chronicle, we have to get our information by that old fashioned (and cheap) method of talking to people...

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