I actually had an interesting side conversation with the reporter about tone - I told him that what I was going to say was not particularly what his editor would want to hear, and noted that the Sun tends to sensationalise issues and that in my opinion the kind of story he was writing now was part of the problem.

He was quite forthright in acknowledging that his paper has a tone and a slant and he knew exactly what he was writing to and who he was writing for.

I didn't press him as to whether the editorial position of the paper matched his own - any professional is going to write to the tone and style of the paper she or he works for - but it was a bit surreal in that, as reporter and interview subject, we established certain awarenesses and almost a kind of metadiscussion of the role and function of the media around the core interview.

As for the law and order agenda of our American clone overlords... well, I imagine you can guess exactly what I think about that.