Andy Coulson's jail sentence gave the tabloid-bashing lobby a welcome opportunity to pose on the high ground once more, after the humiliation of seeing only one defendant convicted at the end of their £100m (according to The Guardian) hacking trial (plus the five who pleaded guilty).
Keir Starmer, the former Director of Public Prosecutions behind the hacking case, smugly declared that the trials had been worth it because they had dispelled the "feeling that journalists were above the law".
Never mind the Crown's abject failure to prove that former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and others were involved in any "criminal conspiracy". The message is that tabloid journalism has now been found guilty, and needs to be punished and restrained.
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