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.
我理解银行家们心里的感受。我们新闻工作者现在也在经受公众对新闻界的质疑，这给人的感觉也很不爽。英国针对媒体行为规范的莱韦森调查(Leveson Inquiry)已进行了数月，多名记者遭到逮捕，但核心事实仍在原地打转：《世界新闻报》(News of the World)侵入了遇害未成年人米莉•多乐(Milly Dowler)的语音信箱。我本人虽非窃听电话的高手，但对那些窃听者感到很亲近。他们是靠别人的生活为生的寄生虫，我本人也是一样。新闻业是一种寄生行业，也必须如此。