Dizzy on the failure of the fourth estate in Parliament

Dizzy thinks writes a damning critique of the Parliamentary lobby system which he believes is producing failures in the process of the fourth estate.

Asked by a Whitehall editor of one of the nationals why he as a blogger he manages to get and sustain scoops he replied

He asked me how I did it. H ow I managed to get original stories that his paper and other papers and broadcasters then picked up on ran with - a mainstream media hit as it were. When I told him that I read through the information published by Parliament daily each morning; scanned the departmental websites for freedom of information request responses; sent sporadic FoI's into departments asking questions that might elicit interesting answers and wrote my own little programmes that could pattern match other available information online, he was taken aback.