There are individual journalists who would deliver stories to us that their editors and producers are not permitted to fund. The whole system is dangerously politicized, and how much worse it could have become without blogs such as these and the internettedness we now inhabit.

And let's not forget this detail either -- the whole incident occurred in a public place to which the PM had invited the media ... the whole thing stinks. As the headline says here, It is worse than we think.