A guiding principle for the world's media should be this: do not hire anyone who was in a senior position at any UK-based Murdoch newspaper*, from the early 80s to the late 2000s.<p>Unfortunately too many of these profoundly corrupted people have found their way into the US media after a spell laundering their reputations by working as media advisers or television media commentators or writers or whatever.<p>Phone-hacking is barely even the start of it. The Daniel Morgan case is so, so, so much worse. These people toxify the print media landscape in the UK and (as bad and as ridiculously partisan as US media has lately become) you should keep them away.<p>They are bad people. It's just that simple. The <i>News Of The World</i> in particular was so malign the only fix was to shut it down, and shutting it down was also probably expedient as it meant they weren't a going concern when the Daniel Morgan case was reviewed again. It was poison.<p>* and verify the hell out of people who worked for the Daily Mail or Daily Mirror -- like, make them do a deposition to your in-house lawyers. This shit spread somewhat into the more traditionally conservative right-wing tabloids and into the left-wing tabloids too.
I hope the readers here are aware that this is just the political smear machine being turned on by WaPo employees and their political friends that don't like this guy because he told them that 'woke' doesn't sell and that WaPo is dying because of them.<p>The timing of this NPR story is not a coincidence and is politically driven. That doesn't mean that it has no merit, but read it with a skeptical eye.<p>The more you know....
It's not surprising that left wing "journalists" are going out with a bang after being fired. They weaponize media to their advantage wherever allowed. If the CEO is to be believed at all, this is a completely false claim.<p>Not surprising. All the left does is lie about people.<p>Edit: Of course this is flagged. The left instinctively does this when they have no counter-argument
There is a common idea expressed by quotes like:<p>Oscar Wilde: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."<p>PT Barnum: "There's no such thing as bad publicity"<p>And Will Lewis has done a masterful job here of demonstrating his understanding of that quote.<p>He actually allowed 2 negative stories to be published about him in his own paper, and now we have another "negative story" (wink wink) about he "almost" didn't allow those first 2 stories to go through.<p>Well played sir.
IF I said something truthful but unflattering about one of my CEO's, publicly (slack, personal blog post, linked in) I would expect to get fired.<p>They weren't asked to say something nice, or make something up. This wasn't an advertiser.<p>Leak the story somewhere else and keep your dam job.