Doping

Through the looking glass; Paul Kimmage gets embedded with Sky as planned and is unnerved by something he sees or is told about and files a story. On what planet does he as a News international employee think a story impugning Sky would get published? Or as an ex employee does he think NI wouldn't use libel law to fuck him over?

He would have been as compromised as any other NI journalist on the story and why he pretends otherwise and moans about Walsh mystifies me.

I like a conspiracy as much as the next person but I think you overplay NI's ability to control journalists now. Especially ones they don't pay. If you don't take money, they can't tell you what to do.

Whilst they (Sky/NI) may have a carrot (career progression or similar) their stick isn't all that. If a journalist blogs about what he witnesses that's not defamation unless it's proved untrue. What Kimmage would do is anyone's guess but he has a lot of hard earned credibility when it comes to resisting bullies.