In a fiery exchange on BBC current affairs staple Newsnight, actor and comedian Steve Coogan and broadcaster Greg Dyke tear shreds off unrepentant News of the World journalist Paul McMullen, who defends phone hacking and the culture of “whatever it takes” journalism.
Coogan goes troppo at NotW journo
In a fiery exchange on BBC current affairs staple Newsnight, actor and comedian Steve Coogan and broadcaster Greg Dyke tear shreds off unrepentant News of the World journalist Paul McMullen, who defends phone hacking and the culture of “whatever it takes” journalism.
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A “journalist” and his whole shoddy organization in denial. Does he really think think the world would be worse off without this dishonest and despicable behavior ?
Harvesting gossip to “sell papers (for the profit of the parent company)” – and then if their actions “lead to tighter controls”, it’s someone elses’s fault, that these gutter rats didn’t exhibit some sense of moral propriety and self-restraint? What sort of “code of behaviour” do these clowns work under?
“Public personalities” they’ve become themselves, by “virtue” of their public profile – it would be good to see them copping what they like handing out to anyone not in “the club”.
Not to mention their amoral biased approach to politics – wielding their influence, with their market share, on perception – as “unelected politicians”.
Is McMullen seriously suggesting Limited News “cover” politics for both sides, with the same intensity?
Unbelievable that any one associated with the muck raking and illegality of this “News paper” could defend their actions in this manner; Paul McMullen is a disgrace to his profession, he should be unemployable as journalist.
I have just finished reading a risible article by Brendan O’Neill in another News Ltd masthead, The Australian, which defends the News of the World by claiming, as all Tories seem to when they aren’t totally in control, that this is all a left liberal plot to destroy freedom of speech and to restrict the rights of poor Tupert Murdoch to demagoguery. We in the middle cannot help but be bewildered by thesefiurther evidences of right wing arrogance and belef in their right to do whatever it takes.