Media held guilty of contempt!

Today saw the journalists of the Mid-day in the dock,held guilty of conmtempt charges for havinmg published stories of a defamatory mature against the former Chief Justice of India Y K Sabharwal.it seems that this has come as a shock to many of the media family but i fail to see why they should be so shocked.i mean,if you make defamatory remarks in print against the serving or retired judge of the Supreme court of India,then you are just asking for it.what is more they did not allow the ex-judge a chance to defend hmself in public.if he or she is guilty then the law should be allowed to take its eventual course.labelling a personin public is not the way to go about it and i for one,definitely expect something better from the Fourth Estate!