Today is Truth Tellers - the 1st Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism
set up by @TinaBrownLM in memory of her late husband, a manc lad who made it in NY & who many consider to be the best editor of the post-war period
You can hear Tina Brown talking about the inaugural Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism "Championing the work of todayβs most dogged and diverse truth tellers"
on #R4Today
If you don't know who Harold Evans was, there's a good obituary here taking you from his working-class roots through becoming a victim of the Thatcher-Murdoch pact that derailed his career as canny & respected editor of the Sunday Times
Quite weird to hear Barry Diller talking about liking Rupert Murdoch despite everything evil he's done - as if enabling that Tucker & the rest of Fox was the 1st bad thing he'd done
guess leopards have really low expectations of having their faces eaten
and of course you can get even more info about @TinaBrownML's inaugural Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism "Championing the work of todayβs most dogged and diverse truth tellers" by following @sirharrysummit
this was Brexit Alex Phillips' gang, @campbellclaret was right to cast this up on her given she's a Faragist
even if she's right to say she wasn't in with Johnson's Vote Leave Β£350M for the NHS lot
Alex Phillips was a Brexit Party MEP for half a year in 2019 but before that she worked for disgraced data mining and campaigns consultancy Cambridge Analytica during a controversial Kenyan presidential election (in 2017)
I see Piers Morgan is going for the "I was an incompetent editor who didn't know what was happening" defence at the Daily Mirror over the turn of the century,
rather than admitting complicity with his journalists hacking phones & harassing Prince Harry
well, I mean, I see from the news & the BBC interview that he's trying to shirk responsibility for the tabloid attack on Harry on his watch
Can't see his reaction on Twitter as like so many people I'm blocked by Piers Morgan for calling him out
Feeling quite sorry for the Kenyan guy who didn't get the joke and is now catching a lot of occasionally quite nasty corrective flak which is swamping my mentions.
People do love to correct others, and nobody just likes what's already been said about it