tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31470065459799846092024-02-20T00:33:20.814-08:00Brian MorganUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006545979984609.post-79731643064806256322012-03-30T10:23:00.002-07:002012-03-30T10:39:34.336-07:00The Personal Cost of Journalism - some small, some large but needs to be explained.Over the quarter century I've been working as a freelance journalist I've experienced just three serious responses to my research investigations. One of them could at worst have seen me convicted of conspiracy, but it didn't.<br /><br /><div>The allegation was actually one of a number of attempts by a doctor I was investigating for various allegedly unethical medical practices to stop me continuing with my research. I'll set more of these attempts out in due course.<br /><br /><div>Let me say now that the allegation of conspiracy was completely without foundation and was thrown out by the magistrate at the first actual hearing.<br /><div><br /></div><div>The two other instances were long running and totally unexplained sequences of internet abuse by two linked individuals who for some reason took a dislike to the kind of investigative work I was undertaking. They both had genuinely suffered events that they wanted to publicise.</div><div><br /></div><div>But it's not a good idea in my opinion to attack a freelance investigative journalist, they way they did, and to expect no counter-enquiries - which there were.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Just watch this space.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147006545979984609.post-27799799141569071762012-02-08T05:19:00.000-08:002012-02-08T05:21:59.200-08:00Remember Mo Wilson.<a href="mowilson.co.uk"></a><a href="http://mowilson.co.uk">Mo Wilson</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0