I know how bankers feel. We journalists are also watching a public inquest into our profession, and it’s not pretty either. Months into the UK’s Leveson inquiry into press standards, and with journalists now being arrested, the central fact is still Leveson’s starting point: the News of the World hacked into the voicemails of murdered teenager Milly Dowler. I’m not a great phone hacker myself but I feel kinship with those who did it. They are parasites who use other people’s lives as material, and so am I. Journalism is parasitism. It has to be.
我理解銀行家們心里的感受。我們新聞工作者現在也在經受公眾對新聞界的質疑，這給人的感覺也很不爽。英國針對媒體行為規范的萊韋森調查(Leveson Inquiry)已進行了數月，多名記者遭到逮捕，但核心事實仍在原地打轉：《世界新聞報》(News of the World)侵入了遇害未成年人米莉?多樂(Milly Dowler)的語音信箱。我本人雖非竊聽電話的高手，但對那些竊聽者感到很親近。他們是靠別人的生活為生的寄生蟲，我本人也是一樣。新聞業是一種寄生行業，也必須如此。