Thursday, April 06, 2006
Beware This Man
Especially if you're a celeb or he invites you to the Middle East.
It is of course Mazher Mahmood is an undercover "reporter" for the "News" of the World, and often poses as a "fake sheikh" in order to gain his target's trust. In my view, he represents all the aspects of journalism at its very worst; entrapment is his favourite method of getting a story, an underhand method where he gets his victims to say things whilst assuming they are having a private conversation. He mainly likes to report things that are not actually illegal (and even a Judge agrees that he does not work in the interest of the public), but are still very helpful for backing up mock outrage in newspaper headlines when the facts don't. However, he doesn't seem to like it when he is the one receiving the publicity.