Uncomfortable truths about the editorial pressures on journalists

of many pieces that reflect on the phone hacking scandal, publishing blog Emma Hartley, you need an epidemic of self-hating journalist, is one of the best.

As a journalist for five years at the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard in London, she came to understand how the stories that made the press. She writes:

"I learned that it may have something to gain by talking to the press - RP, anyone with something to sell and people liked to see their names printed, mostly.

But I also learned that there are limits very clear that people were willing to say, under normal circumstances.

helped to make good contacts. However, a general, found that the most money and influence in an area - football, cinema, the royal family - the less likely they were to speak.

There seems to be a point estimate that people were simply too much at stake to talk about something controversial. "

His knowledge of the trade gossip meant that she was "often confused" about the stories of celebrities published by the New World and elsewhere. He continues:

"Apart from the kiss-and-tell variety of stories, where money changed hands, obviously, there were other stories, photographs are not posed, which the origin was not clear at all.

In them, money, entertainment and hands were itching so perplexed and dismayed because, like a magic trick, I could not understand how it was.

just was not enough disgruntled former employees in the world to account for everything. However, saying that he felt as if it had been an admission of incompetence, lack of imagination or stupidity.

The thought crossed my mind that I had just been sorted out ...

But when I looked at the News of the World on Sunday, I often found myself completely at sea for years, I was haunted by the possibility that I was still in the foothills of what is possible journalistically, that my address book was poor, or who had made history at the executive level that comes with the territory.

This seems to be the explanation - because the executives involved were ready to leave really understands what journalism. I was naive, but he had cheated.

feel somewhat justified career at the time to realize that you were subconsciously comparing his work with the criminal taint is an experience. "

Hartley moved to ask, "How the industry share the blame for what happened?"

• In response, he opened a door that journalists rarely open to the public attention by emphasizing the reality of the internal hierarchy of journals in the editor (and, of course, editor) word is the law. She writes:
• "This is the chain of command. While journalists like to bitch and moan a lot of work after the next person, the industry is very competitive at the national level to keep his job quickly learn to do exactly what your boss asks you to do.
and any deviation from this pragmatic approach to better meet final approval. Journalism may be the fourth power and have a function in a democratic society appropriate, but I think I share a secret when I say that there is nothing democratic about how a newsroom or a newspaper, the work.

The editor is always right, even when you think you are really bad. This is because it can take - and can, if you shout so it is up to him. It's like most jobs, but more.

So newspapers are an industry full of people who joined because they were interested in questioning authority, but I found that to be able to do in the rest of the world learn to keep a lid on in the office. "

am sure that many journalists are aware that this is true, but little to say in public. Admit that we simply tells us what is uncomfortable.

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