Coogan's on Question Time

To be fair you're right, you make popular comedy programmes you no longer deserve any semblance of a private life. The two are evidently intrinsically linked.

 

Don't get me wrong (or indeed put words in my mouth as above), I've no love for the kind of rags that think a kiss and tell story equals news, and phone hacking is an unfair invasion of privacy, however how much publicity and wealth do you think Coogan will have created for himself by courting and of course exploiting his celebrity within the media when it suited him? The sheer hypocrisy of people like Coogan, Hugh Grant, Alistair Campbell et al makes me laugh. I see Heather Mills was enjoying some time back in the public eye today giving it the 'poor me' act. The real victims of this whole affair are people like the Dowlers, normal people living through terrible times who hadn't danced with the devil so didn't partly have themselves to blame.

 

Although I don't agree with it there is I accept there is validity in your argument, but I really don't think Coogan fits the point being made. Personally I am fundamentally opposed to phone hacking by the press and although I may sympathize more with the Dowlers et al, a moral position on a fundamental issue can not be selective.