Journalistic ethics, an oxymoron?

Britain's phone hacking scandal may have few obvious parallels in China, but it has thrown up a host of questions on the role of the press.

The Chinese press is devoting pages and pages to the phone hacking scandal that is unfolding half a world away. Yet, our focus has been somewhat different.

Until Wendi Deng leapt to protect her husband, the mighty media mogul Rupert Murdoch, from the foam-pie-throwing assailant, it seemed the story did not exactly have a Chinese angle.