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[b]Well Mannered wrote:[/b]
[quote]Always highly approachable, if less-than-perfect, media savi Alastair Campbell on Radio 4, Th 3 Oct 2013, paraphrased: "Paul D'acre is an invisible multi-millionaire coward and bully. He runs a corrupt empire posing as the best of British values, while in fact among the very worst. He should now get out of his cave and face the music, though of course he hasn't got the guts to do that."

According to Cristina Odone in The Observer, Dacre has a reputation towards underlings of "a drill sergeant's delight in public humiliation" which also includes verbal abuse. According to Nick Davies in his book Flat Earth News his staff call his morning editorial meetings the "Vagina Monologues" because of his habit of calling everybody a "cunt". In his Desert Island Discs appearance in 2004, host Sue Lawley quizzed him on his methods, to which Dacre responded: "Shouting creates energy, energy creates great headlines." Conrad Black, a convicted fraudster and ex-proprietor of the Telegraph papers, considers him "a saturnine and capricious manipulator". Polly Toynbee has called the newspaper a "daily blast of fear and loathing" and Dacre himself is "the most arrogant bully of us all". Dacre reportedly has difficulties relating to women, and for Toynbee the Mail' attitude under his editorship reflects this. In 2007, Toynbee claimed the paper shares the opinions of Iran's President Ahmadinejad when it responded to his country's release of the hostage Faye Turney in April 2007. After attempting to buy her story, according to the Ministry of Defence, "with a very substantial sum", and Turney going elsewhere, the paper denounced her as an "unfit mother". Simon O'Hagan, writing in The Independent, stated: "As far as Dacre is concerned, women have no right to go out and earn money of their own, let alone rise to positions of power, when they also have a family". Rachel Johnson, writing in the The Independent in 2001, noted that photographs taken of women for the features pages of the Mail must comply with the 'Dacre Rules'. She quotes a Mail photographer: "No jeans. No black. No trousers. Paul Dacre only wants women to appear wearing dresses. If skirts, only to the knee." 
In 2005, the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, long in conflict with the London Evening Standard, then wholly owned by the same media group as the Mail, branded the Mail titles "the most reprehensibly edited" publications in the world. The Mail's treatment of asylum seekers and members of other vulnerable groups is a particular source of grievance for many critics, not only Livingstone. "Maybe we anti-racists have been naive to think that [the Stephen Lawrence campaign] was anything more than an aberration," suggests Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, adding: "wouldn't it be better if this extraordinary editor decided to use his influence to create just a little more understanding of why refugees leave their countries, and what most of them bring to our nation?" Stephen Fry has called Dacre a hypocrite who "sends his son to Eton", but mocks Fry "for being posh. He bullies, swears and shrieks, but presents his paper as having the values and standards of a misty Midsomer Britain. Dacre is, all those who have had the misfortune to work for him assure me, just about as loathsome, self-regarding, morally putrid, vengeful and disgusting a man as it possible to be."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dacre[/quote]

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Topic History of: Millionaire Tabloid Editor Better Than A Proper Job?
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Pru	I think I'll throw up if I hear Campbell say one more time that someone else is a 'bully'. Criticise particular actions by all means but, really, that's hypocrisy of the highest order. It makes it even worse that it's so often the BBC, the institution he tried to ruin purely to save his own arse over a corrupt push to war, that gives this dried-up guttersnipe the airtime.
Well Mannered	Always highly approachable, if less-than-perfect, media savi Alastair Campbell on Radio 4, Th 3 Oct 2013, paraphrased: "Paul D'acre is an invisible multi-millionaire coward and bully. He runs a corrupt empire posing as the best of British values, while in fact among the very worst. He should now get out of his cave and face the music, though of course he hasn't got the guts to do that." According to Cristina Odone in The Observer, Dacre has a reputation towards underlings of "a drill sergeant's delight in public humiliation" which also includes verbal abuse. According to Nick Davies in his book Flat Earth News his staff call his morning editorial meetings the "Vagina Monologues" because of his habit of calling everybody a "cunt". In his Desert Island Discs appearance in 2004, host Sue Lawley quizzed him on his methods, to which Dacre responded: "Shouting creates energy, energy creates great headlines." Conrad Black, a convicted fraudster and ex-proprietor of the Telegraph papers, considers him "a saturnine and capricious manipulator". Polly Toynbee has called the newspaper a "daily blast of fear and loathing" and Dacre himself is "the most arrogant bully of us all". Dacre reportedly has difficulties relating to women, and for Toynbee the Mail' attitude under his editorship reflects this. In 2007, Toynbee claimed the paper shares the opinions of Iran's President Ahmadinejad when it responded to his country's release of the hostage Faye Turney in April 2007. After attempting to buy her story, according to the Ministry of Defence, "with a very substantial sum", and Turney going elsewhere, the paper denounced her as an "unfit mother". Simon O'Hagan, writing in The Independent, stated: "As far as Dacre is concerned, women have no right to go out and earn money of their own, let alone rise to positions of power, when they also have a family". Rachel Johnson, writing in the The Independent in 2001, noted that photographs taken of women for the features pages of the Mail must comply with the 'Dacre Rules'. She quotes a Mail photographer: "No jeans. No black. No trousers. Paul Dacre only wants women to appear wearing dresses. If skirts, only to the knee." In 2005, the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, long in conflict with the London Evening Standard, then wholly owned by the same media group as the Mail, branded the Mail titles "the most reprehensibly edited" publications in the world. The Mail's treatment of asylum seekers and members of other vulnerable groups is a particular source of grievance for many critics, not only Livingstone. "Maybe we anti-racists have been naive to think that [the Stephen Lawrence campaign] was anything more than an aberration," suggests Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, adding: "wouldn't it be better if this extraordinary editor decided to use his influence to create just a little more understanding of why refugees leave their countries, and what most of them bring to our nation?" Stephen Fry has called Dacre a hypocrite who "sends his son to Eton", but mocks Fry "for being posh. He bullies, swears and shrieks, but presents his paper as having the values and standards of a misty Midsomer Britain. Dacre is, all those who have had the misfortune to work for him assure me, just about as loathsome, self-regarding, morally putrid, vengeful and disgusting a man as it possible to be." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dacre