IN THE WORDS of the Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch “will walk the floor of a hostile newsroom” when he arrives this week at the offices of The Sun, where journalists feel let down by the management following the arrests of five senior figures on the paper on Saturday. Media commentator Roy Greenslade went further on the Today programme this morning, claiming Murdoch faces “civil war” in London.
This follows the decision of The Sun’s veteran political correspondent and now assistant editor, Trevor Kavanagh, to write an unprecedented indictment of the “witch hunt” he claims is being directed at his colleagues by the police, thanks to the cooperation of the paper’s management.
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Kavanagh claims to have evidence that the investigation into possibly corrupt payments to police officers by Sun journalists has quickly become “the biggest police operation in British criminal history - bigger even than the Pan Am Lockerbie murder probe”.
He adds: “In one raid, two officers revealed they had been pulled off an elite 11-man anti-terror squad trying to protect the Olympics from a mass suicide attack.” Full story...
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This follows the decision of The Sun’s veteran political correspondent and now assistant editor, Trevor Kavanagh, to write an unprecedented indictment of the “witch hunt” he claims is being directed at his colleagues by the police, thanks to the cooperation of the paper’s management.
(...)
Kavanagh claims to have evidence that the investigation into possibly corrupt payments to police officers by Sun journalists has quickly become “the biggest police operation in British criminal history - bigger even than the Pan Am Lockerbie murder probe”.
He adds: “In one raid, two officers revealed they had been pulled off an elite 11-man anti-terror squad trying to protect the Olympics from a mass suicide attack.” Full story...
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