Journalists like posing nosy questions. They are less happy when their own private lives come under scrutiny. In 2008 Andrew Marr, a leading broadcaster (and a former political editor of this newspaper), won a court order preventing media coverage of an affair in 2003, and of a baby thought to be his. On April 25th Mr Marr withdrew it, telling the Daily Mail he was "embarrassed" by the order, which he had sought to protect his family and the child (not his, a dna test showed). "I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists," he explained.
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