Paula Murray is an idiot update updated
Courtesy of Adam on Twitter, Paula Murray’s revolting Dunblane story in the Express has been pulled from the website. You can still read the filth in Google’s cache however. Adam says the Press Complaints Commission is now looking into it.
In other news Gerry McCann has been speaking to the Commons culture, media and sport committee today. You may recognise the newspaper publisher who more than any made the McCann’s already hellish lives even worse…
Asked by the committee why he and his family only took action against a single newspaper group, McCann said that Express Newspapers were the biggest offenders by some distance but they could have easily sued more publishers. “That was not what we were interested in, we were interested in putting a stop to it first and foremost,” McCann said.
The McCanns launched a libel action against Express Newspapers for more than 100 articles that appeared in its newspapers.
A year ago, Express Newspapers published front-page apologies in the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday to the McCann family and paid them £550,000 in libel damages over coverage of Madeleine’s disapperance.
Flanked by his legal representatives, Adam Tudor of Carter-Ruck, and press representative Clarence Mitchell, McCann told MPs that it became a cause for concern that he was in dispute with Express Newspapers when the Express editor Peter Hill was sitting on the board of the press watchdog. Hill subsequently left the PCC board.
“I did think it was surprising that the editor of the paper that had so flagrantly libelled us could be a representative of the PCC,” McCann said.
Express Newspaper’s owner Richard Desmond is a pornographer.
Update March 11: Thanks to Adam the Tory Troll, we now have PDF scans of the newspaper articles. You can download them here and here. You’ll especially enjoy the section that didn’t make it online. It’s about the ‘good’ victims of Dunblane. Nice to see them get a mention for a bit of contrast, no?
Posted on March 10th, 2009 at 5:43pm under Culture, media and sport
Oh ffs.
How long was it up there?
Couple of days at the most.
The only good thing Peter Hitchens ever did was refuse to work for Desmond…
I’m going to write to her, like lots of other people have said they’re going to do, and to the reader’s editor (if they have such a thing) at the Express.
On the same day Gerry McCann and Max Mosley gave evidence about privacy as well.
Have you read Flat Earth News, Justin? I just finished it. It rocks.
Have you read Flat Earth News, Justin?
It’s in the queue. As if I wasn’t cynical enough.
The Express definitely got what was coming to it, but being flanked by someone from Carter-Ruck is worryingly similar to being flanked by someone from Schillings.
If that had been me I’d have been flanked by Darth Vader. The Express should count themselves lucky it only cost them half a million. I bet it didn’t even dent the profits they made making shit up about the McCanns.
There’s no need to insult pornographers by associating them with that piece of trash.
I recommend the Flat Earth News. It did make me even more cynical though.
It’s not possible to make me *more* cynical, which is why I’m about to start it.
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