Waiting for Lunchtime

Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail is thoroughly unpleasant

Paul Dacre is editor of the thoroughly unpleasant Daily Mail, and therefore almost by definition a thoroughly unpleasant man. He is a man who makes a very good living by essentially printing stories that tell millions of people who they should hate. He also, by all accounts, is a thoroughly unpleasant man to work for, one who uses abusive language and fear to "persuade" his staff to do his bidding.

But despite the fact that Dacre lives his life by doling about abuse, he doesn't seem to like it when the same is done to him. Paul Dacre recently sent a strongly-worded legal threat against a blogger who had the cheek and temerity to have written a rant about how despicable a man Dacre actually is. Because the libel laws of this country strongly favour those who can afford to pay for a potentially very expensive court case, the blogger and his UK-based webhost had no choice but to remove the post. You can read far more details at the link above.

Labels: daily mail, hypocrisy, paul dacre

posted by Iain @ 09:48