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All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

I was a bad journalist.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.