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Socialist Organiser1984 1984-03-08Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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by Patrick World in Action this week exposed the bogus claims of the Sun "newspaper" to have psychoanalysed Tony Benn and found him barmy.
The Boston psychiatrist quoted by the Sun said on television that his conclusion had been casual, partial and completely misrepresented.
At the same time, a former editor of the News of the World lost his libel case against the BBC satirical programme Week Ending', which lampooned him as 'an East End boy made bad' and 'Sid Yobbo' The court decided in effect the same time they were fair comment, which left the editor disillusioned with the public's lack of confidence in his profession.
Never mind all that. Here are the results of our own deep psychoanalysis of a Pleet Street newspaper editor, who wishes to remain anonymous. All known facts about him were fed into a computer and then shown to 10,000 psychiatrists with the following result.
Whacky ... that is the verdict of your average Fleet Street editor.
Sick, sick, sick... that is the
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