'Most people will think journalists are scum'

I've done a piece for InPublishing Weekly about the damage caused to the reputation of newspaper journalists by the News of the World hacking scandal.

When I was writing it I asked my daughter, a nurse, what she thought about the hacking story and what people would think of journalists.

She said: "Dad, most people know that all journalists wouldn't do it [hacking] but they will think you are scum."