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Paul McMullan (born 1963) is a British former tabloid journalist. ==Journalism career== McMullan started his newspaper career at the ''Sunday Sport'' where his laid back approach together with a scruffy look earned him the nickname 'Mucky McMullan'.〔Johnson, Graham. ''(Hack: Sex, Drugs, and Scandal from Inside the Tabloid Jungle )'', p. 25 (Simon and Schuster, 2012).〕 He went on to work as a features journalist at the now-defunct ''News of the World'' between 1994 and 2001, briefly becoming deputy features editor in 2000. In 2011, McMullan admitted to regrets over a series of articles he had written in the 1990s about Jennifer Elliott, the daughter of the late actor Denholm Elliott. McMullan had obtained information from the police that she had been living on the streets and working as a prostitute. She committed suicide in 2003. In July 2011, actor Steve Coogan described him as "morally bankrupt" after appearing with him on BBC Newsnight. Hugh Grant attempted to secretly tape him making claims about phone hacking in a visit to McMullan's pub, The Castle Inn in Dover. McMullan asked Grant during the conversation, "Are you taping me? If you are, good luck to you; I don't really care anyway." He was one of only a few journalists to claim on the record that phone hacking was rife at the newspaper. In November 2011 he made a notable contribution to the Leveson Inquiry where he not only confessed to a wide range of illegal activities in the pursuit of news but defended them as absolutely necessary. In his testimony he presented a robust opposition to the concept of privacy, despite his fear of his own personal privacy being compromised. This fear extended to his long-standing disguising of his personal whereabouts and circumstances, primarily by registering himself (for various purposes) at his parents' home address.〔(BBC News: Leveson Inquiry: Editors 'knew phones were hacked' 29 November 2011 (Retrieved 29 Nov 2011) )〕 McMullan notably told the enquiry that "Privacy is for paedos". McMullan testified to having undertaken a wide range of illegal or unethical activities to get stories besides phone hacking: bribing police officers, stealing documents, going through celebrities' rubbish bins, and at one point posing as a "teenage rent boy" to entrap a paedophile priest. "()t was hard to think of any dubious news-gathering technique he had not confessed to," wrote ''New York Times'' reporter Sarah Lyall, "short of pistol-whipping sources for information." He defended those techniques as "perfectly acceptable ... if all we're trying to do is get at the truth." "() we really want to live in a world where the only people who can do the hacking are MI5 and MI6?" he asked. "For a brief period of about 20 years, we have actually lived in a free society where we can hack back".〔 He scoffed at the very notion of privacy, calling it "the space bad people need to do bad things in."〔 Lyall commented, "At times he sounded like a satirist's rendition of an amoral tabloid hack"."〔 More recently, McMullan has been a freelance journalist. He often works in Kent with KOS Media titles, including the ''Kent on Sunday'' paper. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul McMullan (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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