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July 20, 2006updated 22 Nov 2022 8:19pm

The ‘delicious’ hypocrisy of the British press

By Press Gazette

There is a diabolically delicious stench of hypocrisy about the British press. I speak as one who is as guilty of causing a stink as the next circulation chaser.

WASN'T I the editor best remembered — if remembered at all — for running the Princess in the gym pictures in the Daily Mirror? Indeed I was.

DIDN'T the Princess of Wales issue a writ against me over their publication, thus providing my Mirror with yet more self-serving headlines to boost circulation? Guilty as charged, m'lud.

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