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July 24, 2009

Richard Desmond sets the record straight in his papers

By oliverluft

While the rest of Fleet Street today reported on how Richard Desmond had lost his libel action against biographer Tom Bower, Desmond’s own publications had a different take on the case.

The lead article on page two of today’s Daily Star said Desmond was ‘proud to have set the record straight’and detailed the proprietor’s reasons for pursuing his legal action against Bower.

Only when you get to the last paragraph does the story reveal that Desmond was not actually defamed.
The piece doesn’t mention the word ‘lost”, nor does it carry any of Bower’s post match analysis about how he was the victim of “a very rich man trying to suppress the truth” and how the jury had done a “great service to British journalism”.

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