Readers' Ombudsman: This is about much more than two men and their vile phone calls

THERE have been suggestions that the furore surrounding Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand and the BBC was simply a vindictive onslaught by the media, envious of Ross's multi-million-pound salary and the middle-class- saturated BBC's protected status.

There are a number of fundamental problems with this premise.

The first is the media are not a single-minded entity. Newspapers are competitors, fierce, hard-nosed competitors, who do not enter into conspiracies to act in a unified manner. If publ...