Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow has accused Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers of targeting public individuals, calling the group “insidious”. Snow told the Leveson Inquiry today he believed the Mail and Mail on Sunday was “pernicious and, at times, mendacious” when reporting on the private lives of politicians and others in the public eye. He… Read more »
Lord Justice Leveson has today responded to a Mail on Sunday story claiming he tried to prevent politicians from speaking out about the effect of the Leveson Inquiry. The judge opened the morning hearing with a statement on a Mail on Sunday article, published last week, which claimed he had made an “angry” phone call… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart The New Yorker’s recent long profile of the Daily Mail contained a passing reference to something that may be worthy of a little more attention than it has received. Noting that the editor of the Mail on Sunday, Peter Wright, had stepped down, writer Lauren Collins observed: “His replacement, Geordie Greig, is… Read more »
Jemima Khan has denied any knowledge of a “plummy-voiced woman” leaving Hugh Grant messages in her written evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. Khan, who dated Grant from 2004 until 2007, categorically denied having been the source of the story about a “plummy-voiced woman” who left messages on Grant’s mobile phone voicemail. The Mail on sunday… Read more »
