Publishing salacious material as public interest besmirches press freedom

Seedy legal plea to name couple filmed having sex by police officer Adrian Pogmore is anything but a matter of high principleOne of the recurrent justifications by certain newspapers for intrusions into privacy is the public’s right to know. All too often this apparently high-minded ambition amounts to nothing more than a desire to publish salacious material that besmirches the concept of press freedom. A classic example occurred last week following the trial of a former police officer who