Cable Forum - OJ 'confession'

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Originally Posted by punky (Post 34167930)

Cheers for that. Couldn't read the bottom one, but the top one really shocked me, just unbelievable, that that letter could grace the pages of the Guardian. Guardian readers call The Sun unprofessional?

(Someone should tell Mr Brooker has 2.8 million registered users (and who knows how many anonymous ones), not "a few hundred").

So yeah, it did cheer me up, in a sort of immature sadist way.

i'm lost again but not an usual state. this is the letter though:

What a depressing week for journalism. In a lecture on the way different papers treat stories, I asked a young undergraduate how the Sun had played OJ Simpson. I should have known. There wasn't a line in the Murdoch tabloid. It matters little whether the spiking of a story, that in other circumstances might have merited a splash, was the result of a direct edict or a case of supine news executives second-guessing The Boss. The effect was the same - proprietorial censorship.
All in the same week which saw Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko fighting for his life for investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, herself an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, shot dead at her Moscow apartment building last month, most likely by the same gang of thugs. Thus, state censorship at its crudest. Against this, I suppose the demise of the Press Gazette was merely sad.
Paul Charman, head of journalism, London College of Communication

:p: :D