The Jockey Tapes

I had been leaked what became famously known as the jockey tapes. It was phone taps and surveillance of a major organised crime figure called Victor Spink. In the end, the three jockeys received lengthy bans from racing. But it was decided just to charge them with pretending to tip not with actually giving information. I thought, why is it that journalists are always blamed? No one ever blames themselves for the fact that they've been caught. It is always somebody else's fault other than their own.