Friday 19 December 2008

Conor Cruise O'Brien on the tabloid press

Conor Cruise O'Brien, the former editor-in-chief of The Observer, dipomat and politician, who has died in Dublin aged 91, described the worst features of British popular journalism as "cockiness, ignorance, carelessness, prurience, innuendo, and lip-service to the highest moral standards".

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