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Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:52 am ]
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And, as you would expect, his story varies somewhat from that given by News International staff (and ex staff).

Quote:
Ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown says lessons cannot be learned about press standards unless there is honesty about how details of his son's cystic fibrosis were published by the Sun.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18386968

Author:  bobbdobbs [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:33 pm ]
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Its funny how they all were ok with the press upto the moment they disagreed with something they published.

Author:  Spreadie [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:51 pm ]
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Yeah, maybe when The Sun turns on David Cameron, he'll stop inviting Brooks & co round for dinner.

Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:14 pm ]
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John Major has contradicted some Murdoch testimony too.

Author:  bobbdobbs [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:30 pm ]
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So which one of the thieving lying barstewards was actually telling the truth? :lol:
Everyone one of them has a reason not to tell the whole truth or as happens so often suddenly contract amnesia about a period that may be troubling for them but have full eiditic recall when its in their favour. ho hum.

Author:  E. F. Benson [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:01 pm ]
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Nothing could be further from the truth than this whole affair.
John Majors testimony was the tell here. He didn't pander to the media and ergo they "Steve Bell'd" him.
Blair, Brown and Cameron like to be thought more media savvy.

I don't think you can be all things to all men though, now it turns round to bite. Just hope Lord Justice Leveson has bigger cahounas than Hutton.

Author:  pcernie [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:22 pm ]
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Did Mandy hold an 'official' spin position, so to speak?

Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:10 pm ]
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I'd say that Major, even though I disagree with his policies, is more likely to be truthful in this situation. Given that what he said, it is reasonable to assume that Brown's testimony is close to the truth.

I pity Leveson. He has to pick all this apart and work out what really happened, write a report, justify it to a committee and deal with the fallout from various interested and powerful individuals.

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