And so it came to pass: after the initial breach made by the
collected ranting and frothing of attention seeking Tory MP (well, until 2015,
perhaps) Rob Wilson, along with the obedient hackery of the legendarily foul
mouthed Paul Dacre, has come another wave of pundits ordered over the top in
pursuit of discrediting the Leveson Inquiry, despite the tactic having failed
thus far.
The Murdoch Sun declared “It’s A Huge Loversum” (geddit?!? Er, no, actually), while
trowelling on the relationship between Carine Patry Hoskins and David
Sherborne, which happened after it could have had any effect on proceedings.
Just for good measure, Rupe’s downmarket troops suggest Ms Patry Hoskins took a
shine to Hugh Grant. Perhaps. Sort of. Nudge-nudge.
And to show that the story has worked its way round the
cheaper end of the Fourth Estate, the
Express has pickup up on it,
including a new rent-a-quote, Matthew Sinclair, chief non-job holder at the
so-called Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA): “Either
she was paid far too much for basic work or she played a much bigger role than
has been acknowledged”. Thus the legal expertise of economics graduates.
The shifting from the news angle – inevitable, given that
there is next to no news here, with the fees for public sector work laid down
some years previously, as I pointed
out yesterday – to comment continued in the Sun. “She
got £218,606 for 16 months’ work. More than the Prime Minister”. Got
free run of 10 Downing Street, Chequers and the rest, along with the limos, did
she?
Rupe’s downmarket troops move right along from asserting
that there was “a glaring conflict of
interest” without being able to stand it up, to talk of Leveson being about
“how to muzzle Britain’s press”, and
conclude “Either Patry Hoskins was a key
figure in compiling the report. Or the Leveson inquiry blew a
scandalous sum of public money on an office junior”. How much does Sun editor Dominic Mohan get paid?
Does he get the
£150,000 a year that Ms Patry Hoskins was paid for her work at the Leveson
Inquiry? You jest. Dom trousers around £660,000, and, this being a private
sector organisation, we don’t get to see how that “adds up”. With all the costs incurred by Leveson (link HERE
in case anyone hasn’t seen it yet), we know how everything stacks up. It is
completely transparent.
But that would not
be sufficient for Daily Mail Comment,
the authentic voice of the Vagina Monologue, which thunders “doesn’t this raise awkward questions about
why anyone should be paid so much for such apparently undemanding work?” to
which the answer is, only for those trying to retain the status quo for the
press to carry on screwing over the public as they see fit – like Paul Dacre.
How much does Dacre earn? £1.8 million a year. What colour is the pot, kettle?
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