Sharpe's Opinion

Guido: ‘We Hold the Journalists to account’

Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) wrote a piece for ‘Comment Is Free’ today in which he turns away from the politicians (”[they] are what they are”) and sets his sights firmly upon the lobby journalists and political reporters. The whole thing makes for entertaining reading, but this paragraph particularly caught my eye:

I can’t help but think of the line in the film Gladiator about Maximus Decimus Meridius, ‘Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome’. If you look at Smeargate, it was the internet that enabled a determined blogger to expose Downing Street in a way that the more compliant lobby hacks in Westminster were unwilling to do. The more of us there are, the more the corrupt have to fear.

I can’t help but think I’ve heard that before… Cheers, Guido – ‘tis an honour.