Friday, October 12, 2007

Journos on the attack against Marr

Interesting article in this morning’s pages of the Press Gazette by David Rose and, Dominic Ponsford.

Gordon Brown has certainly upset the media by releasing the news of the non election to the Andrew Marr show only.I described Marr as perhaps being a poodle for Brown in an earlier post.

The Gazette suggests that


Gordon Brown has been advised to scrap proposals to scupper the Freedom of Information Act if he wants to win journalists back over after the bungled handling of his election announcement on Saturday.
The Society of Editors is planning to make a formal complaint to the Government in protest at the way Brown exclusively gave news that the November election was off to the BBC’s Andrew Marr.
Sky News has made an official complaint over Brown’s “unfair and highly irregular” handling of the election announcement and ITV has also voiced its strong disapproval.

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