Guido Fawkes a hypocrite?

The whole thrust of Guido Fawkes' Newsnight piece last night was that lobby journo's require "access" and suck up to the great and good in order to get it.

He's right here, as Nick Robinson admitted, its part of the job (as they see it).

However, has Guido, in a quite beautiful bit of irony, done the same thing?

During Newsnight he engaged in an argument with Micheal White regarding the "second email system" inside Downing Street, which may or may not have been used by Labour staff involved in the cash for honours issue. Guido says he broke the story that the system exists, and White said it simply didn't. Crucially, Guido then said "Well, Nick Robinson was the source for that".

Oh dear.

Naming a source like that? Very bad form, especially for someone who's appearing in shadows lest his top secret identity be revealed.

Then Guido blogs an explanation stating that he didn't mean what he said, and that Nick Robinson wasn't the source for anything, he merely spoke to him about the issue that day. Hmm, something doesn't quite fit here, lets consider the options.

• Robinson is the source. In which case Guido just outed him on National TV, then quite grovelingly back tracked in order to protect his relationship with his source. Ironic isn't it?
• Robinson isn't the source. In which case Guido was very clearly mistaken (and if it wasn't accidental he plain lied) in the interview, which is just plain stupid.

So then, which is it? I doubt we'll ever know, but either way its exactly the sort of behavior he spends so much time berating others for. One thing I am sure of, the UK Political Blogosphere was not well represented last night.