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Daily Telegraph employs Kelvin MacKenzie

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Happily coincides with their new paywall.

Actually, what are people's opinions on what should and shouldn't be boycotted?

Because to my mind boycotting The Lying Rag (and broadcasting that fact) but not other Murdoch properties or organisations or programmes employing MacKenzie reeks of hypocrisy.

But maybe I'm too puritanical about it? Can one be too puritanical about a principle?
 
No, exactly. If you really want to read a shit paper you can get the Mirror or the Star, it's a bit more of a sacrifice to stop watching Sky.
 
Fair play. Personally I don't hate The Lying Rag at all, it's just a crappy newspaper. The people responsible for the lies are the ones to hate.
 
I think you'll find support on this on every LFC forum mate, good luck, that cunt shouldn't ever be allowed a soapbox to stand on ever again.
 
singlerider said:
I'm currently trying to find out as many of the major advertisers with the Telegraph as possible, in the intention of arranging a boycott until he no longer has a column with them
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I like. Its about time the likes of him and Norman Bettison were brought to account for the lies and misconduct. Justice for the families should also mean that the ones who made them suffer should be brought to book.
 
I just "unfollowed" Henry Winter and Paul Hayward on Twitter. Nothing personal of course.

I said "Oi! Winter! Noooooooo!
 
Chuffed that the odious toad has been shunted. Margaret Aspinall is bang though. How he have even been considered is utterly absurd.
 
peterhague said:
Happily coincides with their new paywall.

Actually, what are people's opinions on what should and shouldn't be boycotted?

Because to my mind boycotting The Lying Rag (and broadcasting that fact) but not other Murdoch properties or organisations or programmes employing MacKenzie reeks of hypocrisy.

But maybe I'm too puritanical about it? Can one be too puritanical about a principle?
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Indeed. I am pretty sure that MacKenzie is still employed by the BBC sometimes. And they pay him with our money! That must be worse surely, but boycotting the BBC would be dreadfully hard work.
 
I'd love if this was all a ploy by the Telegraph just to fuck him over. Doubt it though.

*follows Henry Winter and Paul Hayward again*
 
Richey said:
Indeed. I am pretty sure that MacKenzie is still employed by the BBC sometimes.
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MacKenzie often appears as a panelist on BBC TV's "Question Time." He never voices any original opinions, but works out the mood of the audience and then says things that he thinks will earn him a round of applause from the plebs. He's no political thinker.
 
Well this all went well.

And yeah,The Lying Rag boycott means nowt on it's own. I'm a full Murdoch avoider. Not having Sky in the house conveniently dovetails with my alcoholism.
 
TheThingIs said:
Singlerider gets shit done.
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Hehe

*blows knuckles, rubs them on chest*

Well, what can I say? I only had to even think about organising a boycott, and them pussyoles backed down cos they knew what was good for them.

Yup, I think I can safely claim all of the credit for this one, without a doubt
 
Seems Hansen had some influence on this.

Has Kelvin MacKenzie become unemployable? Two weeks ago the former Sun editor lost his online column on the Daily Telegraph after just one effort (see here).

In July last year, he parted company with the Daily Mail after spending barely a year there as a columnist. Prior to that, from 2005 onwards, he wrote a column for The Lying Rag.

It is also apparent that he is no longer the maverick right-wing voice of choice for BBC1's Question Time or Radio 4's Any Questions.

Why should this be? In a word, Hillsborough. Twenty-four years on from the tragedy he cannot escape the fury of the people of Liverpool for his front page that defamed the city's football fans.

One disastrous decision, to refer to the disgusting and false allegations about Liverpool FC's fans as "The Truth", has haunted him ever since.

Many scores of the comments below his Telegraph column referred to Hillsborough while others condemned the paper for "dumbing down" by publishing his views.

But I can reveal the real reason it was decided to drop MacKenzie. I understand that the editor, Tony Gallagher, was made aware by the sports desk of deep upset about the hiring of MacKenzie by its writers, especially its star columnist Alan Hansen.

Hansen, who played for Liverpool on the day of the Hillsborough tragedy that caused 96 deaths, has always been a strong supporter of the bereaved families.

Last year, when the Hillsborough Independent Panel report was published, Hansen wrote in the Telegraph of his "respect for the families and the campaigners who have fought so hard for the truth to come out."

In that article he also wrote:

"I have encountered ignorance about Hillsborough on many occasions, finding myself having to correct the inaccurate version of events."

No version of events was more inaccurate than that published by MacKenzie's Sun, so it was unconscionable for Hansen to have him as a Telegraph colleague.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/apr/18/kelvin-mackenzie-dailytelegraph
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Fair play to Winter. And Hansen too of course.

I also heard Paul Hayward kicked up, but that could be all bollocks.
 
Yeah, good on Winter. I'm not always his biggest fan, but that takes him up in my estimation. Good on Jocky too, but no more than I'd expect from him.
 
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