McKenzie vs Channel 4 reporter

[Gym Beglin]

Check out this video on YouTube:

 

 

:yes:

[Lario]

Cunt.

[Jack the Sipper]

Ha. I can almost imagine the cunt shouting 'YOU'RE A MENTALIST', and then running through a field when he finds the gate locked at the end of the driveway.

[Gym Beglin]

Terrific from Channel 4, and great to see MacKenzie rattled.

[njackets]

The reporter was fucking brilliant, absolutely priceless that! The nets closing in.

[gumps]

Hahaha! Love a good doorstep moment!

 

Did you hear him say ..."are you still employed Alex?"

 

What a cunt!

[Nightcat]

Alex Thompson, I salute you. Respect.

[Vivaldo]

Made me grin. Good on the reporter, really went for it.

[scudger99]

Did anybody clock the cunt's address ?

I'd sign him up to every gay mag postal service I could find.

[kop77]

how do the bbc employ this lying cunt

[Megadrive Man]

Amazing Stuff from Alex Thompson.

 

I could watch this over and over.

[Tossed and blown]

I'd doorstep him with a Stanley knife.

[Arl arse]

Wonder what lies he'll come up with next week then?

[Unrighteous]

Wonder what lies he'll come up with next week then?

 

I bet that ubercut will make some bullshit like he was on prescription pain meds or something.

[Tony Moanero]

Well in, Channel 4. I'm not watching it though. Personally, I boycott not just The S*n but MacKenzine as well.

[Major Tom]

Brilliant work.

[Bjornebye]

would love to go round there on mizzy night

[Sandford]

Fucking Ace that!!

 

Well done Alex Thompson. Excellent commitment.He should camp outside the fuckers house and grind him him down.

[lifetime fan]

"Please, please don't do this please...please".

 

Hopefully you now have a slight knowledge of what it's like you vile cunt.

[thompsonsnose]

Ch4 News is the only UK News prog worth bothering with.

Top work. Alex Thompson seems to be their football man.

He did a lot of stuff on Rangers when they went pop.

[Guest davelfc]

No doubt he's arranged a very profitable deal for himself where he gets to vet the questions and 'set the agenda' so he comes out of it looking like a victim.

 

He's a vile piece of shit.

[Gym Beglin]

I'm sure if you emailed Alex Thompson he would gladly tell you where he lives.

 

He also wrote this article to accompany the video.

 

Why won’t MacKenzie tell us ‘the truth’ about Hillsborough? | Alex Thomson's View

 

Why won’t MacKenzie tell us ‘the truth’ about Hillsborough?

 

To be fair to The Sun, it was reporting in good faith what several police sources had told to a reputable Sheffield news agency. A local MP was also saying the same thing. It was not to know it was in the hands of a major police black propaganda operation - a cover-up.

 

Even so, that night, The Sun reporter who wrote the copy beneath the infamous headline insists he wrote a story about “allegations” concerning Liverpool fans at Hillsborough. He says he was measured, distanced. He could not be sure.

 

Harry Arnold, that reporter, recalls just what happened when he saw Kelvin Mackenzie writing that headline: “I was about to leave the newsroom when I saw him drawing up the front page,” he told the BBC, “When I saw the headline ‘The Truth’ I was aghast because that wasn’t what I’d written.”

 

He recalls a critical conversation which then took place with Kelvin MacKenzie:

 

HA: You can’t say that.

 

KM: Why not?

 

HA: Because we don’t know that it’s the truth.

 

KM: Oh don’t worry. I’m going to make it clear that this is what some people are saying.

 

And he left.

 

But that is not how things appeared in the paper, as the world knows. To date, Mr MacKenzie has never explained why he overruled the clear misgivings of many of his staff that day.

 

Moreover, except for a written apology last week in which he said he wished he’d written ‘The Lie’ instead, Mr MacKenzie has not given any interviews at all since the publication of last week’s Hillsborough report.

 

Channel 4 News repeatedly called him requesting an interview. We called yesterday in person to relay that message to him via his family at his large house in a private development in Surrey.

 

This morning I arrived there. I went straight to his house without any camera or recording equipment and asked Mr Mackenzie if he would kindly put on camera the remarks in his statement last week and generally give his side of the story.

 

Mr Mackenzie explained he was in the middle of writing an article for The Spectator and did not wish to do a TV interview with me. He then added: “F*** off.”

 

So I did. But not far. Just around the corner in fact to meet our cameraman and put on a radio microphone.

 

We called again. And you can see what happened on the next two meetings at his house. This time, Kelvin MacKenzie had changed rapidly from the shorts and t-shirt of the earlier visit into a smart shirt and trousers.

 

I sensed he was going out. In fact he went in. He again said he did not wish to be interviewed and that he was ‘not going to let (Channel 4 News) set the agenda’. He slammed the door in my face.

 

What the camera doesn’t pick up is that, from within the house he said: “I’m not afraid” when I ask him why he’s afraid of speaking to us.

 

Equally, when we returned a second time, what you don’t quite hear is Kelvin Mackenzie emerging from his house to leave.

 

As he does so he says jauntily: “Ah Alex – you still here? And still employed?”

 

I confirm on the tape that I am, still, employed and the rest is all there for you. And needs no words from me.

 

But as a postscript, consider this from Chris Horrie and Peter Chippindale’s fascinating account of life under Kelvin Mackenzie at The Sun – “Stick It Up Your Punter: Rise and Fall of The Sun”:

 

“As MacKenzie’s layout was seen by more and more people, a collective shudder ran through the office but MacKenzie’s dominance was so total there was nobody left in the organisation who could rein him in except Murdoch.”

 

“The error staring them in the face was too glaring. It obviously wasn’t a silly mistake; nor was it a simple oversight. Nobody really had any comment on it, they just took one look and went away shaking their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was a classic smear.”

 

A smear for which Kelvin Mackenzie adamantly refused to apologise for many years. He still refuses to explain why he came to over-rule his staff and set in train a smear that hurts many to this day.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

If it was anybody else, holding his car door open like that would be out of order. As it's MacKenzie, I couldn't give a fuck.

[robslappa]

I find the sudden rush of many journalists, not just Thomson, to question MacKenzie in the wake of last week's report a bit nauseating and opportunistic. The lies that he printed in 1989 have been known to be untrue to the wider public for many years, yet apart from a select few people most never cared enough to question him or the police. They didn't give a fuck.

 

Now, all of a sudden Mackenzie's an easy target and what Thomson did yesterday was a publicity stunt and nothing more.

[gumps]

I find the sudden rush of many journalists, not just Thomson, to question MacKenzie in the wake of last week's report a bit nauseating and opportunistic. The lies that he printed in 1989 have been known to be untrue to the wider public for many years, yet apart from a select few people most never cared enough to question him or the police. They didn't give a fuck.

 

Now, all of a sudden Mackenzie's an easy target and what Thomson did yesterday was a publicity stunt and nothing more.

 

While I agree with you about the "apology bandwagon" a bit, we all know how things works now particularly in the media. They react to opportunities.

 

Pre HIP report, it would have been career suicide for any journalist to break ranks and confront KM like Alex Thompson. Before HIP, KM had the power high ground, now thats been taken from under him and he's being mauled by the pack.