You have a point about individual ministers' personal lives. :-)
The press do seem to have different standards for different politicians.
(I didn't follow the dance around foreign minister Bildt, but remember a journalist complaining that it was a democracy problem that Bildt had his own blog so he could get his own version out...)
That is hardly the same as leaking embarrassing internal papers (which have showed up quite often in Washington Post/NY Times).
Leaking of papers did happen with the Muslim Brotherhood guys that were sent back (and tortured) in Egypt. But how many more times?
The press has for decades gotten direct subsidies from the state here -- and I've seen notes that acknowledge influences, but note exactly how much...
The press do seem to have different standards for different politicians.
(I didn't follow the dance around foreign minister Bildt, but remember a journalist complaining that it was a democracy problem that Bildt had his own blog so he could get his own version out...)
That is hardly the same as leaking embarrassing internal papers (which have showed up quite often in Washington Post/NY Times).
Leaking of papers did happen with the Muslim Brotherhood guys that were sent back (and tortured) in Egypt. But how many more times?
The press has for decades gotten direct subsidies from the state here -- and I've seen notes that acknowledge influences, but note exactly how much...