The Daily Mail

[The Hitman]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/30/kelvin-mackenzie-join-daily-mail

 

The former Sun editor, Kelvin MacKenzie, is defecting with his "rather disgraceful" weekly column from the News International tabloid to rival title the Daily Mail.

 

MacKenzie will join another outspoken rightwing columnist and former Sun colleague, Richard Littlejohn, in the Daily Mail's stable of writers.

 

He has been a columnist for the Sun since mid 2005, when he was signed as a replacement for Littlejohn when the latter returned to the Mail. Littlejohn had been at the Sun for seven years.

 

Mackenzie told the Guardian: "I owe everything to the Sun. The Sun owes me nothing. I will miss the readers - I felt, probably conceitedly, that I had an umbilical cord to their issues and their thought processes. But all good things come to an end and I very much look forward to taking my rather disgraceful column to the Daily Mail."

 

MacKenzie would not comment on how much he is being paid by the Mail.

 

It is understood that he informed the Sun's owner News International about his decision to leave 10 days ago.

 

Littlejohn announced his decision to quit the Sun after seven years to return to the Daily Mail in May 2005, although his departure was delayed when News International won a high court injunction preventing him from writing for the Associated Newspapers title until December of that year. Littlejohn previously wrote for the Mail between 1994 and 1998.

 

MacKenzie was hired by then-Sun editor Rebekah Wade (now Brooks) as replacement for Littlejohn, who was then Fleet Street's best-paid columnist.

 

The former Sun editor was in charge of the Sun during its 1980s golden era, when sales exceeded 4m a day, and the paper produced a string of memorable front-page headlines, including "Freddie Star ate My Hamster" and more controversially, "Gotcha", which followed the sinking of the Argentinian ship the General Belgrano in the Falklands War.

 

In 1989 MacKenzie published a notorious front page Sun splash making false allegations about the behaviour of Liverpool FC fans at the Hillsborough stadium disaster.

 

The paper, and MacKenzie, subsequently apologised – although the former editor appeared to backtrack on this at a private lunch in 2006 – but Liverpool supporters have never forgiven the Sun and its sales have never recovered on Merseyside.

 

It remains to be seen whether MacKenzie's move leads to the departure of Mail on Sunday columnist Kenny Dalglish, the Liverpool manager. He was in his first stint as the club's manager at the time of Hillsborough.

[Falconhoof]

he makes me sick to my stomach, not many people do that.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

Another easy boycott then.

[Case]

What a c***.

[Gravy]

Since when did he apologise??? The ****

[johngibo YPC]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:05, John said:

Another easy boycott then.

 

Indeed. Hopefully by Kenny as well

[Elephant Stone]

Dick of a man.

 

The epitomy of absolute pond scum.

 

Luckily I wouldn't see fit to wipe my a*** with either publication.

 

 

[Stanley Leisure]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:05, John said:

Another easy boycott then.

 

Yup.

 

Wonder what their circulation is in Liverpool?

 

Must be semi-decent.

 

I know loads of Dads who read it.

[johngibo YPC]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:18, Stanley Leisure said:

Yup.

 

Wonder what their circulation is in Liverpool?

 

Must be semi-decent.

 

I know loads of Dads who read it.

 

It'll be interesting this. Boycotts wider than the Sun have never really happened

But this is far more in your face than, say, his stake in Talksport

[Stanley Leisure]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:17, johngibo YPC said:

Indeed. Hopefully by Kenny as well

 

Good point.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

I can see Kenny taking a stand, but since the boycott against the S*n doesn't include the NOTW, you could argue that this boycott needn't cover the Mail on Sunday. Different paper, different editor etc, even if it's in the same ownership and similarly branded.

[Frosty Jack]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:18, Stanley Leisure said:

Yup.

 

Wonder what their circulation is in Liverpool?

 

Must be semi-decent.

 

I know loads of Dads who read it.

 

Proud moment was finding out i'd unwittingly convinced my parents to stop buying it, they started getting that I mini independent thing instead.

[aka Dus]

The Mail's popularity in the UK is utterly baffling to me and proof positive that I know jack s*** about the UK.

 

And it's relative popularity in Ireland with its "Irish Daily Mail" shows how much I know about that place too.

 

Their website is like s**** to flies though. And women love it.

[Rich Gobey]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:18, Elephant Stone said:

Dick of a man.

 

The epitomy of absolute pond scum.

 

Luckily I wouldn't see fit to wipe my a*** with either publication.

 

What have you got against ponds?

[Gilps]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:45, aka Dus said:

And women love it.

 

Always especially baffling that, considering how disgustingly misogynistic the paper is.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:05, John said:

Another easy boycott then.

yep

 

convenient that all of the c**** congregate in one place

[muleskinner]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:45, aka Dus said:

The Mail's popularity in the UK is utterly baffling to me and proof positive that I know jack s*** about the UK.

 

And it's relative popularity in Ireland with its "Irish Daily Mail" shows how much I know about that place too.

 

Their website is like s**** to flies though. And women love it.

 

its for people who like tabloids that dont want people to think they are buying one. And racists.

[kop205]

Thanks for the info.

 

And also for not entitling the thread 'Kelvin McKenzie'.

 

If you had, I might have got my hopes up that he'd died.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

  On 30/06/2011 at 18:30, muleskinner said:

its for people who like tabloids that dont want people to think they are buying one. And racists.

[Jiggy Hates Jazz]

  On 30/06/2011 at 18:30, muleskinner said:

its for people who like tabloids that dont want people to think they are buying one. And racists.

 

As the son of a newsagent, I concur.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

  On 30/06/2011 at 19:51, Jiggy Hates Jazz said:

As the son of a newsagent, I concur.

bet you loved it when the deliveries of grumble turned up

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

  On 30/06/2011 at 19:57, Macca said:

bet you loved it when the deliveries of grumble turned up

 

nah, he hates jazz.

[Stevie H]

  On 30/06/2011 at 17:01, The Hitman said:

It remains to be seen whether MacKenzie's move leads to the departure of Mail on Sunday columnist Kenny Dalglish, the Liverpool manager. He was in his first stint as the club's manager at the time of Hillsborough.

 

kenny should stay on there but write his column about hillsborough and mckenzie every, single week. until such time as they are forced to sack him for writing about hillsborough every, single week.

 

and assuming he doesn't already, his fee for the weekly piece should go straight to the HJC. and he should also mention this in his column every, single week.

[smithdown]

So what do we reckon - no more links to mail stories on here for a start?

[Damian_de]

links to the Mail should be banned on principle even before this.