IT WAS THE SUN WOT DUN IT!
Mr Trevor Kavanagh's rants in yesterdays Sun newspaper and on the BBC, are surely a case of chutzpah writ in neon lights and accompanied by dancing girls, and is all the more irritating for having more than a kernel of truth about it, press freedom is under threat at the moment and the process of investigative journalism is imperilled. Who however brought about this state of affairs? The lawless bullying and thuggery of News International has for years distorted the democratic process, subverted the police and ruined the lives of countless people, all under the protective cloak of freedom of the press. They have not served the public interest but undermined it. They have made the trivial and the squalid important and driven popular culture to ever greater depths. They have debased the currency of debate and fed the British public on a diet of half truths and downright lies. Imagining themselves above the law they sought to play the role of puppet masters whilst squaring things with their police buddies over sumptuous lunches and quantities of strong liquor.
There is a peculiar bitter comedy in Kavanagh’s remarks about the police, “who polices the police!” Is this the same Sun reporter who beat the drum as Blair introduced ever more draconian legislation curbing civil liberties? Now he wakes up to the threat to liberty, stating, correctly, that we are behind some former Soviet states when it comes to press freedom, (funny I didn’t think Johnny foreigner counted).
Mr Kavanagh’s discovery that the News International management consists of a bunch of unscrupulous shits, something the rest of us have known for years, also provides a comic twist; welcome to the world the rest of us inhabit Mr K.
Still as News International management happily throw its journalists to the wolves to save themselves, as they are suspended or given their P45’s they can always turn to their union, the NUJ, for assistance………………oops NI banned independent unions and set up its own ‘staff association’, (its recent bid to be registered as an independent union was rejected, it being adjudged to be merely an instrument of management), they had to sign away their union rights to get the NI thirty pieces of silver.
On a cold winters morning in February they can but reflect, to coin a phrase,that
IT WAS THE SUN WOT DUN IT!
There is a peculiar bitter comedy in Kavanagh’s remarks about the police, “who polices the police!” Is this the same Sun reporter who beat the drum as Blair introduced ever more draconian legislation curbing civil liberties? Now he wakes up to the threat to liberty, stating, correctly, that we are behind some former Soviet states when it comes to press freedom, (funny I didn’t think Johnny foreigner counted).
Mr Kavanagh’s discovery that the News International management consists of a bunch of unscrupulous shits, something the rest of us have known for years, also provides a comic twist; welcome to the world the rest of us inhabit Mr K.
Still as News International management happily throw its journalists to the wolves to save themselves, as they are suspended or given their P45’s they can always turn to their union, the NUJ, for assistance………………oops NI banned independent unions and set up its own ‘staff association’, (its recent bid to be registered as an independent union was rejected, it being adjudged to be merely an instrument of management), they had to sign away their union rights to get the NI thirty pieces of silver.
On a cold winters morning in February they can but reflect, to coin a phrase,that
IT WAS THE SUN WOT DUN IT!
