What do we have elected represenativesin parliament for if its not to expose wrongdoing and injustice?

Good journalism can also expose wrongdoing, evil and corruption.

The Enron scandal has increased pressure on companies to create programs that encourage employees to expose wrongdoing without fear of retribution.

"Community newspapers should be the protector of the people" and expose wrongdoing, he said.

Mr. Martinelli said he is just doing what a journalist should do - exposing wrongdoing.

The law has been formulated in such a way to reduce the opportunity to expose wrongdoing by appearing to be evenhanded.

However, he continued, the First Amendment may protect newspapers exposing wrongdoing by the government.

"We may get beaten sometimes, but not on investigations where we are exposing wrongdoing ourselves," he said.

Many newspapers do not seem to want to dig as deeply as they once did to get the story and to expose wrongdoing.

But he had daunting advice for anyone considering exposing wrongdoing inside an agency.