[Chris]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/us...nt&tntemail1=y

Even if it's not phone hacking someone has been underhand in obtaining information.

yep. It's called blagging, it goes on at every level of our print media from your weekly free-sheet to the nationals, and it's one of the reasons I got out of the industry (having realised being good at reporting probably meant being good at blagging too).