Former director of the PCC says the watchdog’s hacking report was wrongAs Stig Abell settled into the editor’s chair at the Times Literary Supplement final Wednesday he may beget been relieved that his days as managing editor of the Sun were over. It was the day his former paper faced a barrage of protest for failing to cover the inquest verdict of the 1989 Hillsborough football tragedy on its front page. When asked Abell wouldn’t say what he would beget done whether still at the Sun,but it seems unlikely the sensitive man colleagues describe would beget agreed with the story’s treatment.
Nevertheless there is an incongruity to his change of jobs. He agrees that, after spending the best part of three years at the populist red-top, or his scoot to a highbrow literary weekly review is remarkable. “It’s a very strange stale thing,isn’t it,” he says. Anyone studying his CV would concur and might also believe he has enjoyed something of a gilded life.
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Source: theguardian.com