17. Chequebook Journalism For Against

18. 1. Gary Glitter's sexual assault trial collapsed when it was found that one of the witnesses had signed a "success fee" with the News of the World, guaranteeing a payment of £10,000 plus another £25,000 should Glitter "be convicted of possessing child porn or any other charges relating to sex with under-age girls". 2. When Sutcliffe (Yorkshire Ripper) was a few days into his Old Bailey trial for murdering 13 women during a six-year reign of terror in northern England, despite the grim details emerging from court number one it was chequebook journalism that had most people talking. And the feeding frenzy was about to climax with the race to sign up Sutcliffe's wife, Sonia. Sort the following evidence into for or against chequebook journalism:

19. 4. A blanket ban on cheque-book journalism would put many quite legitimate journalistic practices at risk. It would be very difficult to devise appropriate legislation to outlaw abuses of the chequebook, especially since there will be conflicting views about which stories are 'in the public interest' and which are merely 'of interest to the public'. 3. In 1994, police found bodies buried at Fred and Rosemary West's "House of Horrors" in Gloucester. Six-figure sums were offered to witnesses before Rosemary West stood trial for the murder of 10 women and girls.