Scargill.
Since Larry Lamb took over as editor of the Express the paper has chang: ed. Gone is the boring old conservative (In CVCIy sense) Express. In came the strident Sun-style populist anti-union hvsteria.
3y Davy Jones The miners' strike was a godsend for Lamb. Since it štarted there have been a against the NUM and Ars stream of sanders especially.
TAUT scargul Professor Eysenck was w neeco colivare Siargill with Hitler for example.
The print workers in ine troress nad been :hreatening to take action against this bias when last week's mock Scargill speech ('The truth that Sargill dare not tell') appeared. The сору was typed prooted but signed 'under protest' by SOGAT pilulels. The union chapel and union senoet. Bill Keys, then began to negotiate for a right of reply.
Larry Lamb refused but knuckled under when Lord Matthews overruled him. in today's jingobingo circulation war the prospect of losing millions of copies concentrates the mind wonderfully puts 'principles editorial freedom into perspective.
Twist Lamb is no fool however. Knowing that journalists on the Express are not exactly radical he appealed to them about econa acoenaclce either 'threats' from Bill Keys or proprietorial interference Lord Matthews. Lonhro and the Scargill compared the role of the Express with Goebbels' lie-machine Matthews refused to let it go in Nothing could 'his paper . better illustrate who are the real censors the real threats to the freedom of the press.
í ne coooe en fect of the whole affair has been to publicise the notion of a right of reply for victims of media bias and to show that media workers themselves can be allies in trying to combat distortion.
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headlines itself last week. Print workers on the Daily reply to a scurrilous front page article ridiculing
resign, the paper's London edition failed to appear front page 'statement' on the affair. What on earth was going on?
In the next few days the editor threatened to one day and the proprietor, Lord Matthews, made a