Peter Oborne Puts the Right Spin on It

You'll need to put a part of your brain in Brit-mode to savor all the snark in Peter Oborne's smackdown on the News of The World scandal, (and the tepid media coverage and government response thus far), but it's worth it.

[British Prime Minister David Cameron] finally woke up to the kind of company he has been keeping on Tuesday when during his Afghanistan visit he declared the Milly Dowler revelations ‘truly dreadful’. David Cameron has repeatedly displayed an inability to make a distinction between right and wrong. The press ought to have stepped into the breach. Unfortunately, we in Fleet Street have forgotten that the ultimate vindication of journalism is not to intrude into, and destroy, private lives. Nor is it the dance around power, money and social status. It is the fight for truth and decency.

(H/t CJR)