Observers with a sense of history have noted that the tabloids’ self-justification, advanced in the name of press freedom, mirrors that of the authoritarian state. The Sun columnist Jane Moore admonishes errant public figures: ‘If you don’t want your private life splashed all over the papers, then behave yourselves.’ Or, as it was once put, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear – for there is only one way the state or the Sun can know whether you are behaving yourself.
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Stephen Sedley, “The Goodwin and Giggs Show”, London Review of Books, v. 33, no. 12 (16 June 2011), p. 3
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n12/stephen-sedley/the-goodwin-and-giggs-show
