NotW affair now out of control

As we write this NotW episode seems to be spinning out of control. The changed nature of the scandal is the fear that is clearly being generated. The police are afraid of the journalists, journalists are afraid of editors, and politicians are afraid of red tops in general. This is no longer a case of ' are we justified in reglating a newspaper in case it is the thin end of the orwellian wedge' ? It now has undertones, as has already been suggested, of the mafia in Italy. There is hope - that the rats will realise the ship may be sinking and turn on each other so we will hear the whole sorry story. But one suspects there will be too much obfuscation and fudging for that. Both the police and the journalists may be constratined in case the blame arrives back at their door - even the door of number 10.
So, if this now transcends the issue of press freedom, how do we proceed ? Appeals to moral regeneration are unlikely to last long as they face the blizzard of the profit motive. Legal action looks draconian and dangerous. With a sigh (because I suspect it will not actually work), a public boycott of the offending newspaper is the best answer, underpinned by the flight of the advertisers. In other words, put them out of business. And, of course, there must be the fullest. most genuine inquiry possible with prosections to follow. Enron here we come. It is a pity the Americans are not doing it. They know how to lock people up !