>And I suspect it's because most of the public don't care either. I think that may be the effect rather than the cause. Public opinion is shaped to a pretty la

>And I suspect it's because most of the public don't care either. I think that may be the effect rather than the cause. Public opinion is shaped to a pretty large degree by what the media tells people to be interested in. And with the media mostly telling us that it's happening but that's it's not important, it's for our own good and that anyone publishing details about it (like the Guardian) is threatening national security, that's what a lot of people accept as fact. It makes me angry because this is the exact reason why freedom of the press needs to exist - not to allow papers to publish details of some celeb's romantic life. But it's only the latter that 95% of the press in the UK seem to be prepared to battle to defend.