PRESS FINANCIAL TIMES GANG The Daily Urlegraph
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upstaged the soldiers in have been placed the mass media. The Sun position from which he was sinking of the Belgrano Ms Williams. TWO weeks is a long time in the sewer rat business. Since the last edition of Socialist Organiser was put to press it would have been possible to collect a miscellany of outrageous and ludicrous postures from Fleet Street.
It could have started with the London bombings, the first since the victorious return of the Falklands warriors. We could have noted how quickly the press adjusted its prim mask of distaste at blood and gore, scarcely having wiped the hiand of the Argantino VLAD conscripts from its mouth.
Moraaant Mainr Wager Ivy ager said later: 'The Princess spoke of the terrible tragedy of the • horses caught by the IRA bomb." Sergeant Cook added: ''She was also very sympathetic about the people who lost their lives and were injured:"
Daily Mirror with the word 'Gotcha' _ under the curious headline "All the Queen's Horses and All the Queen's Men" The television gave more prime time to the recovery of the wounded steeds than to the funerals of their riders.
There was more material from the courts as Brian Radley was fined £100 for delivering his girlfriend's baby without supervision.
This left the moralisers of Fleet Street in quandary. Should a chap be permitted to deliver HIS baby from HIS woman however he chose. Or should he be forced to allow someone else to do it whatever he thraht de far VTVI AS Michelle Williams - who played a minor walk on role in this drama - well who cares what she thinks.
The Guardian got its liberal knickers in a twist. It declared that the health authority, rather than prosecuting, should have obtained an iniunction.