THE REDEMPTION OF MRS MENSCH
The other morning I watched Mr White goes to Westminster, a channel Four film featuring Ben Patterson from 1997, it is available to view on the Channel Four website. As a satirical expose of the Tabloid press it is incredibly prescient and I recommend it.
I watched it after reading of the apology given by Mrs Mensch to Piers Morgan following her accusations about him made under the cloak of parliamentary privilege, (see below). Mrs Mensch’s apology followed on from an attempt to blackmail her by a tabloid journalist, a disgusting man hiding under the cloak of anonymity.* To her eternal credit Mrs Mensch owned up to the accusations and replied that she was not going to be cowed in her campaign against phone hacking, publish and be damned! Well she may be a rampant self publicist, though not on the scale of Mr Morgan, but she turns out to be a ballsy one. She has redeemed herself with some considerable credit.
As for the execrable Mr Morgan who has re-launched himself in the US as a talk show host on CNN and multi purpose‘ celebrity’ I would hate to have my previous comments interpreted as some sort of endorsement for Mr Morgan. In the US they may have been unaware of what the implications of being a tabloid editor UK are; they may now be in the process of being educated. As the phone hacking scandal starts to lick around his feet it seems he is beginning to sweat a little as the newly created life of Piers Morgan part II is threatened.
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/jul/30/piersmorgan-newsoftheworld