Alexi Mostrous reports:
It had all the elements of a classic tabloid sting — apart from a name. The Sun’s decision not to identify a top football manager accused of visiting a brothel marked a tipping point in British privacy law, media experts said.
The newspaper ran a front-page story about the manager, who it said went to a “Thai vice den” in October. But The Sun, which is owned by News Corporation, the parent company of The Times, said that it could not name him for legal reasons.
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Newspapers have taken a cautious approach to such stories since Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One, was awarded £60,000 against the News of the World which falsely accused him of taking part in a “sick Nazi orgy”. Mr Stephens said: “That decision effectively means stories like this can’t be published. Two years ago the manager’s name would have been on the front page.”
Read more in the Times Online.