Radia tapes case

he  conversations raises two questions for the media and citizens.  Does the public have a right to know the contents of recordings (such as the Radia CD) that expose manipulation and corruption in high places?, Second: privacy issue involved
From the point of view of those who are on the recordings, there is indeed a breach of privacy: the contents, they say, should have been used only in the investigation of the particular case for which the tapping was authorised; there was no excuse for its reaching the public or the media, which is illegal. This is the objection Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, has raised in his November 22 petition to the Supreme Court seeking an injunction on transmission of those conversations in any form. Radia was handling public relations for Tata’s group and he figures in a conversation with her that has appeared in the media

"You need to use your sources and not let the sources use you. These are the first lessons one gets in a journalism school," said Vinod Mehta out look editor towards the end.