You need to watch this.
One of Britain’s most controversial newspaper editors is confronted with his past mistakes. The story behind this is tragic, of course, but here is a vastly amusing short video, as Channel 4 News turns up on Kelvin MacKenzie’s doorstep to demand some answers about his paper’s reporting of the Hillsborough disaster. And it shows up one of the constant dilemmas of journalism: writing a catchy headline versus telling the undistorted truth.
‘We just want to know what your message is to the people of Liverpool, why you wrote the headline that you did, and why, in writing that headline, you overruled your own senior journalists who said “Come on Kelvin, we’ve got to nuance this, we’ve got to be careful about this.” …You weren’t very careful, were you Kelvin?’
The former editor of The Sun seems to take offence at these questions, and tries to slam shut his car door against the irritating journalist. Seriously – watch that video.
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