What should journalists do?

Slugger points to a fascinating exchange,

In the North journalists were sometimes told to hold back on a story in case they might do damage to the delicate administration,

The chap quoted, David Gordon, political editor of the Belfast Telegraph, may well be making it clear that he would have no truck with this. But he would not be raising the sisue at all if this sort of approach by the Government didn't have some impact on journalists.