Mr. Daniel McConnell:

It has to be taken on a case-by-case basis. I am a newshound. I have been a news reporter for 17 years at national level. If I have a good story, I want to shout it from the rooftops that we have this great story and we want to tell everybody about it. You are going to want to really give it gusto. You do not want to pull your punches. You do not want to necessarily duck away from the hard edge of a story. As I referred to earlier, however, when the simple asking of questions can draw a legal response, it does give you pause for thought.

Ultimately, people who are well-established and who are public figures largely know the cut and thrust of journalism, politics, etc., and things like that. They know that if it is a legitimate query, they will answer it, and they might not if it is not in their interest. However, this development of going legal, from an editor's perspective and from an individual journalist's perspective, of course, gives one pause for that. As Mr. Purcell rightly said, it does also cement in the mind that there is a story worth chasing there. Each case is very different, however. You have to almost take it case by case.