The tale of the tabloid turncoat

While a former Daily Star reporter quitting on a matter of principle and sticking a very public two fingers up at paymaster Richard Desmond seemed honourable at first, the publication of articles like this mean I'm beginning to have my doubts.

Is Richard Peppiatt genuinely some kind of noble crusader performing a valuable public service by lifting the lid on the sordid and tawdry world of the gutter press? Or is he telling us little we didn't already know (essentially, that the tabloids' practices are despicable) and overindulging in self-publicising now he's out of regular paid employment? I'm now erring towards the latter.

For a start, surely he went into the industry willingly and with his eyes open, rather than falling into the "tabloid trenches" like some dazed and naive innocent? The simple truth is that he didn't HAVE to do the job. Why did it take him two years to locate his moral compass? And why, you have to wonder, is there little sense of shame or remorse in the tales he recounts - just a distinctly unsavoury relish in his tone instead?

(Thanks to Neil for the link.)