Bloggers beware

I will have to be very careful with future posts given the fate suffered by Rod Liddle after his outspoken Spectator blog.

As a journalist I am clearly aware of the need to be accurate and impartial in everything  I write, but also as a journalist I still can't bring myself to think of a blog, such as this, as one and the same as paper journalism.

Clearly Liddle chose the wrong subject to be controversial about and even then the Press Complaints Commission had to resort to nit picking over the use of overwhelming to make the charge stick.

What it does signal is a change in attitude to bloggers who, to date, have largely been considered outside the normal rules governing ' real journalists'