Celebrity cases were being used as a "bridgehead" to allow legitimate journalistic inquiries to be stifled, Hislop said.

There has been a serious failure of journalistic inquiry here.

By any standard, that was a legitimate line of journalistic inquiry - not in that blurry area of personal matters.

It was in this vein of journalistic inquiry that I got the idea to take Marley for a day at the beach.

This was a perfectly legitimate journalistic inquiry.

Those meetings were for "journalistic inquiry".

"I had nothing to do with the journalistic inquiry into the voting process," Mr. Gore told his journalism class at Columbia University this afternoon.

No comment is a phrase used as a response to journalistic inquiries which the respondent does not wish to answer.

The issue was a suitable subject for journalistic inquiry, and Newsweek should not be savaged for looking into it.

The measure is designed for security, but critics say that in practice it is used to silence Government whistle blowers and discourage journalistic inquiry.