What is ethical in reporting? When does a source become a story? Should what happen on tour really stay on tour? Well the Sydney Morning Herald has this interesting piece on the recent spate of journalists tattling about private incidents with notable figures; firstly with the Treasurer Peter Costello here in Canberra at the Waters Edge restaurant and then with Mr Rudd in New York. Some of the interesting points in the article are in relation to how journalists suddenly close up when it is they that become the story.
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