As Jacqui Janes tapes her conversation with Gordon Brown, it's clear politicians are heading for asymmetric war with the publicThe Sun is certainly out to get its former friend Gordon Brown, to the extent that it has published a deeply awkward private telephone conversation between the prime minister and the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. But however nasty the motives, was it a valid journalistic exercise? Well, if the citizen journalist can do it, why not the professional?As I understand it, the Sun says that Jacqui Janes made the recording on her own initiative and then handed it to them. I am with Roy Greenslade on this one. It is a nasty political campaign by the Murdoch newspaper. ...