Kelvin Mackenzie

Is this the fella who wants to run against David Davis (for the Sun newspaper)?

It seems the Sun have never been so pro-labour! Already predicting how Davis resigning will dent the tory's in the opinion polls, now if that isn't wishful thinking.......
 
I'm not sure his editorship of the rag would be described as pro labour though, with the exception of David English he was just about Thatchers biggest Fleet Street cheerleader in the 80's
 
Originally posted by Warbler@Jun 13 2008, 10:49 PM
I'm not sure his editorship of the rag would be described as pro labour though, with the exception of David English he was just about Thatchers biggest Fleet Street cheerleader in the 80's
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Thats a good point warbler, and perhaps him standing shouldn't been seen as anything else but a stunt by the Sun, however, I was thinking along the lines of people like George Pascoe Watson the poltical editor of the Sun, and how he seems to be pro Brown and close to Brown. I'd say Murdoch has a big choice to make, does he go with the party that will most likely gain power at the next election, or remain loyal to New Labour until the bitter end. Personally I think a bit of balance iin the main papers is good for politics, and I suppose if you want your right wing stuff (like me when i'm grumpy) then you go and get The Mail, but what I don't like is how some figures in the media won't just come out and say one way or another they're Labour supporters, people like Kevin Maguire and Pascoe-Watson i'm thinking of in particular.

I note that even members of the press that are right wing have critisms of the conservatives and don't neccesarily bum lick the party's position - rather they just announce there own form of right wing lunacy which is quite sweet (or bitter!) in it's own way. On the other hand figures like Pascoe Watson and Maguire don't often seem to nail their beliefs to the left wing or any other wing for that matter (but we'll stick with left because that's what labour were supposed to be), rather than do that they stay delibrately in line with what the current Labour leader is saying on any given day of the week. An example of this is how Watson was defending Brown's position on 42 days the other day on question time, he didn't come across as someone who believed in it because of his left or even right wing phillosophies, just because Brown was pushing it through, and for me thats the difference between most of the left and right wing media, one sticks to a basic ideology and the other changes it's postion everyday to fit in with the agenda of the current labour government. Perhaps the right wingers done this when Thatcher was in and they was positioning around Kinnock, but i'm too young to remember that!

ps, I just saw on wikipedia that Pascoe Watson is "living" with Kay Burley of Sky news, lucky so and so!
 
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