And let us not forget...

As the revelations keep pouring out and as the inquiries settle on regulations for the future of our media, let's hope that those rulings keep in mind the dark heart of this problem.

Let's hope that Mr Clegg's wish to create a plural media (and not a stifled one) is the place to which we are heading. Let's hope we are heading to a place where tyrants are forced out of the media. Let's hope it leaves our media free to hold power to account.

And let's hope we don't forget that it wasn't the media and its methods that caused these problems. Rather it was powerful, monolithic entities that didn't hold politicians and police to account, but rather made them fearful and cowed.

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+ Ros Wynne-Jones' 'Red-top redemption: Why tabloid journalism matters'; in The Independent; 22 July 2011;