Mr. Harry Browne:

There was a case I am familiar with, and which I have reported on since I left The Irish Times, of a senior journalist within a newspaper that no longer exists, who was relieved of his position after a piece ran under his jurisdiction which was lightly mocking of a prominent property advertiser. That advertiser approached the managing director of the newspaper directly. Consequently, the journalist's employment was terminated within 24 hours. Examples of this are not copious. For the reasons discussed previously, journalists usually understand the lines that they need to be careful about crossing, but that is a good example of someone who crossed the line and paid with his job.