His own paper had sure done a number on him, and all from a photograph. When he’d seen Collins and his own photographer, he’d struggled to believe Rawlings had done the unthinkable, even when Gary had said Phillip’s own paper had run the feature. To report on a member of staff—even a sacked one—would cross most accepted ethical laws of journalism. It effectively broke the NUJ code of conduct. That said, such an article depended on the newspaper and whether the people involved were ‘juicy’ enough.
On the whole, no one, not even Phillip, would expect such a thing to happen, if only for the fact that if a paper got a bad reputation for treating current or former staff badly, it could have trouble employing good people. Not that the London Inquisitor employed good people—an ironic take on his
