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Post by Moose on Oct 1, 2013 22:18:25 GMT
The dear old Daily Mail has scored something of an own goal in the last few days with an unpleasant attack on Labour Leader Ed Milliband's late father. The general gist seems to have been that Milliband pater had Marxist tendencies and therefore 'hated Britain' (he was in fact a European Jewish immigrant). There has been a lot of anger over the piece, not least because the gentleman in question is no longer alive to defend himself. I understand that a representative from the Mail was on Newsnight tonight attempting to defend the article, though I've not seen it yet. I will once it hits iplayer.
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Post by tangent on Oct 2, 2013 1:08:55 GMT
I've just listened to it, there was quite a barney going on with Emily Maitlis (Newsnight presenter), Alistair Campbell (Tony Blair's spin doctor) and a rather smarmy deputy editor of the Daily Mail. We actually learnt very little but I'm sure the other newspaper editors loved it. BBC Newsnight interview
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Post by Moose on Oct 2, 2013 1:53:35 GMT
listening. Might fall asleep and read the rest tomorrow
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Post by Moose on Oct 2, 2013 2:13:20 GMT
Well that was quite fascinating, tho maybe not in the way that it was intended to be..
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Post by tangent on Oct 2, 2013 10:55:27 GMT
We were not given enough information to make a judgement decision. Alastair Campbell was furious, the DM editor defended themselves. What a surprise.
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Post by Moose on Oct 2, 2013 16:55:25 GMT
I meant that the interaction between those two was fascinating. They clearly both have insider info on one another lol
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Oct 4, 2013 21:39:14 GMT
I find it hilarious that AC is trying to say this sort of thing is wrong, when you consider the measures they were prepared to take against Ken Livingstone during the London mayoral elections. He and Blair ran one of the biggest smear campaigns in the history of modern British politics.
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Post by Moose on Oct 6, 2013 17:54:48 GMT
Well I am not a particular fan of Campbell frankly and I did not like the fact that he talked over people during that interview .. people who do that are annoying and rude. But I am not really sure that Campbell is the point. To me the point is that Milliband's father does not have right of reply and that this was a smear against him - I would have been very angry had they done this sort of thing to my dad. Also it is a bit ironic for a newspaper which openly supported the Nazis to be making accusations of this nature and then claiming that their own very murky past is done and dusted and therefore not relevant!
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Post by tangent on Oct 6, 2013 23:21:21 GMT
It is a long time ago and one could argue that the newspaper has moved on from the wartime era (one would hope so), but you just have to think of it in terms of your own father, as you say.
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