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Originally Posted by Russ
The fact he said it took more that 20 years for him to realise it is also quite something.
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McKenzie and the Sun always thrived on sensationalism. For years, he has been able to claim that his headline was the newspaper's consistent approach to scandalous information from reputable sources. IMO he held that line for a lot longer than was decent. Even if today's report had found that everything the Sun reported on that day was true, the manner in which it was reported, and the timing of it, were grossly insensitive given what had just taken place and how many were dead and injured and he should have apologised for that years ago.
Given that the wave of outrage today is rightly concentrated on those within South Yorks Police who orchestrated this smear campaign and cover up, McKenzie has chosen possibly the only time he could reverse his position and tender an apology without becoming the centre of attention as a result of it.
Ultimately, however, everyone except Officialdom knew the truth of matters years before now and McKenzie could have offered a sincere apology without waiting for the results of this inquiry. Trevor Hicks has probably summed it up as well as anyone, quoted in the Mirror* today:
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... said it was "too little, too late" and calling him "lowlife, clever lowlife, but lowlife".
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* not that I think the Mirror has anything to crow about.
People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.