All Posts Tagged With: "Justice Eady"

No sex please, we're in Wapping

May 6th, 2009 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The Culture, Media, Sport Committee goes fishing for Eels.

Tom Crone is head legal honcho at News International where he’s worked for more than 25 years, as he proudly told the CMS Committee at an oral evidence session today. Crone is one of the country’s top media lawyers, quick on his toes, slippery as an eel and very hard to catch. He’d come along to hold the hand of Screws editor, little Colin Myler, former editor of the Catholic Pictorial in Liverpool and of the Sunday Mirror (from which he was forced to resign after derailing the trial of two Leeds United footballers).

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Muck-raker Dacre decries the right to personal privacy.

November 10th, 2008 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

When Max Mosley sued the News of the World for invasion of privacy last July, and won, Paul Dacre’s paper launched a vicious personal attack against Mr Justice Eady, the High Court judge who made the ruling. He ordered his hacks to write pages of frothy-mouthed vindictive in which the judge’s personal life was attacked from every angle. It was disturbing to witness a full-grown man behaving like a small child who thought someone was trying to take away his favourite toy. (see my blog post: “Why are the Mail backing the Screws?” July 27th.)

The papers for which Dacre is responsible, the Mail and the Mail on Sunday rival the News of the World in their lust for the blood of wounded celebrities. The Mail on Sunday in particular, under the specious guise of Guardian of the Moral Values of Middle England, loves to get down and dirty among the private traumas of the rich and famous.

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