It was an extraordinary outburst, a little hypocritical for a journalist who had to hurt people, ruin careers in the name of journalism himself to attack another journalist for something they had done to them. Alcohol no doubt had a lot to do with the attack, it is inconsistent approaching someone who wrote a story about you,when that is what you do all the time to others.

I don’t think he should lose his job . Stephen Mayne should get a Wakely for not getting down in the gutter and fighting with him. That would not do, it would be the gutter press in the gutter, or at least it would appear that way.