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...ministers of the Conservative government-Earl Jellicoe, Tory Leader in the House of Lords, and Lord Lambton, parliamentary Under Secretary of Defense for the Royal Air Force-resigned after it was disclosed that they had been patronizing London call girls. In the report of his investigation of this matter, Lord Diplock very carefully weighed each minister's indiscretion on different-oddly different -scales. Jellicoe, it was pointed out, used only "escort agencies" advertised in the London papers, dealt with the girls under an assumed name and never "spoke to them of anything remotely related to his work...
...predictable reaction of many will be to declare that the press is not to be trusted with the freedom it already enjoys." The Press Council, meanwhile, began an investigation, and Lord Lambton has been to see his solicitor...
...stories from tainted sources-"checkbook journalism"-is frowned on by the British Press Council, an influential body that monitors journalistic ethics. Said the Times of London: "Bought evidence is bound to be suspect evidence." The notion that Operation Peep was in the interest of national security holds little water; Lambton's career was doomed before the press intervened. Journalist and M.P. Winston Churchill, Sir Winston's grandson, argued: "Saying that hiding photographers in brothel keepers' cupboards is in the best traditions of journalism is really grotesque." In this case, it is also harmful to the British press...
Busy Life. In any event, new and conclusive pictures were obtained. After some discussion, NOW editors decided not to print a story exposing Lambton by name. Instead, they gave the photos and tapes to Levy, sent him packing without a penny and informed Scotland Yard of what was going on (the police already knew). The paper then published an article saying that authorities were investigating an unnamed politician entangled in a vice ring. Levy, meanwhile, took his enlarged stock of material to People and demanded ?45,000 ($112,500). He quickly settled for $1,875 down, with a promise...
People had been skunked by NOW and by events; Lambton resigned before People could get much return for its investment. So it published Norma's unsubstantiated story, telephoned from Morocco, that a third minister was involved in her busy life. For their efforts, People, and to a certain extent NOW, earned widespread opprobrium...