Kelvin MacKenzie - Revision history

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-[[Image:Kelvin300x230.jpg|thumb|right|Kelvin MacKenzie]][[Kelvin MacKenzie|Kelvin Calder MacKenzie]] (b. 22 Oct. 1946) is a former editor of [[The Sun]] (1981-1993).  He is a close associate of [[Rupert Murdoch]], the media mogul. Murdoch referred to MacKenzie as his "favorite editor".
+[[Image:Kelvin300x230.jpg|thumb|right|Kelvin MacKenzie]][[Kelvin MacKenzie|Kelvin Calder MacKenzie]] (b. 22 Oct. 1946) is a former editor of [[The Sun]] (1981-1993).  He is a close associate of [[Rupert Murdoch]], the media mogul. Murdoch referred to MacKenzie as his "favourite editor".
 Media commentator for [[The Guardian]] Roy Greenslade writes:
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 ===References===
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-[[Category:Journalists|MacKenzie, Kelvin]]
+[[Category:Journalists|MacKenzie, Kelvin]][[Category:Islamophobia in the Media|MacKenzie, Kelvin]]

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 ==Birmingham Six==
-The Birmingham Six were a group of six men wrongly sentenced to life in prison in 1975 for bombing a Birmingham pub. Kelvin MacKenzie was editor of The Sun in 1988 when the group lost an appeal hearing:
+The [[Birmingham Six]] were a group of six men wrongly sentenced to life in prison in 1975 for bombing a Birmingham pub. Kelvin MacKenzie was editor of The Sun in 1988 when the group lost an appeal hearing:
 ::The Sun saw the judgement as an opportunity to declare open season on those who had campaigned for the case to be re-opened. The Sun's front page headline the next day read, LOONY MP BACKS BOMB GANG. An editorial said, 'If the Sun had its way, we would have been tempted to string 'em up years ago.'<ref>Error of Judgement, by Chris Mullin, Poolbeg Press, 1990, p.310.</ref>

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 ==Birmingham Six==
-MacKenzie was editor of The Sun in 1988 when the [[Birmingham Six]] lost an appeal hearing:
+The Birmingham Six were a group of six men wrongly sentenced to life in prison in 1975 for bombing a Birmingham pub. Kelvin MacKenzie was editor of The Sun in 1988 when the group lost an appeal hearing:
 ::The Sun saw the judgement as an opportunity to declare open season on those who had campaigned for the case to be re-opened. The Sun's front page headline the next day read, LOONY MP BACKS BOMB GANG. An editorial said, 'If the Sun had its way, we would have been tempted to string 'em up years ago.'<ref>Error of Judgement, by Chris Mullin, Poolbeg Press, 1990, p.310.</ref>
 ==Contact, References and Resources==

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 Media commentator for [[The Guardian]] Roy Greenslade writes:
-:As editor of the Sun for 12 years, from 1981, MacKenzie was the master of publicity stunts that turned politicians from all parties into a laughing stock. He launched venomous attacks on [[Neil Kinnock]], [[Tony Benn]] and "Red" [[Ken Livingstone]]; and his paper was scathing about [[John Major]], [[Norman Lamont]] and [[Michael Heseltine]]. Among its most memorable, and cruel, headlines were those concerning the private peccadilloes of ministers, such as [[David Mellor]] ("From toe job to no job") and [[Tim Yeo]] ("Off Yeo go, you dirty so and so.<ref>Roy Greenslade, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/14/media.daviddavis/print You couldn't make it up], Guardian, 14 June 2008.</ref>
+:As editor of the Sun for 12 years, from 1981, MacKenzie was the master of publicity stunts that turned politicians from all parties into a laughing stock. He launched venomous attacks on [[Neil Kinnock]], [[Tony Benn]] and "Red" [[Ken Livingstone]]; and his paper was scathing about [[John Major]], [[Norman Lamont]] and [[Michael Heseltine]]. Among its most memorable, and cruel, headlines were those concerning the private peccadilloes of ministers, such as [[David Mellor]] ("From toe job to no job") and [[Tim Yeo]] ("Off Yeo go, you dirty so and so).<ref>Roy Greenslade, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/14/media.daviddavis/print You couldn't make it up], Guardian, 14 June 2008.</ref>
 ==Career==

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 Media commentator for [[The Guardian]] Roy Greenslade writes:
-:As editor of the Sun for 12 years, from 1981, MacKenzie was the master of publicity stunts that turned politicians from all parties into a laughing stock. He launched venomous attacks on [[Neil Kinnock]], [[Tony Benn]] and "Red" [[Ken Livingstone]]; and his paper was scathing about [[John Major]], [[Norman Lamont]] and [[Michael Heseltine]]. Among its most memorable, and cruel, headlines were those concerning the private peccadilloes of ministers, such as [[David Mellor]] ("From toe job to no job") and [[Tim Yeo]] ("Off Yeo go, you dirty so and so")<br>Davis can have no idea what is about to hit him. Nor, for that matter, can MacKenzie, who is spontaneous rather than a strategist. He will, though, have two big advantages. First, his campaign will be funded by Rupert Murdoch. One has to wonder at the audacity of an Australian-American media mogul backing a Sun columnist to try to win a British parliamentary seat. It does not link Murdoch to a particular party, but it does open him up to scrutiny about his political involvement in this country.<ref>Roy Greenslade, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/14/media.daviddavis/print You couldn't make it up], Guardian, 14 June 2008.</ref>
+:As editor of the Sun for 12 years, from 1981, MacKenzie was the master of publicity stunts that turned politicians from all parties into a laughing stock. He launched venomous attacks on [[Neil Kinnock]], [[Tony Benn]] and "Red" [[Ken Livingstone]]; and his paper was scathing about [[John Major]], [[Norman Lamont]] and [[Michael Heseltine]]. Among its most memorable, and cruel, headlines were those concerning the private peccadilloes of ministers, such as [[David Mellor]] ("From toe job to no job") and [[Tim Yeo]] ("Off Yeo go, you dirty so and so.<ref>Roy Greenslade, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/14/media.daviddavis/print You couldn't make it up], Guardian, 14 June 2008.</ref>
 ==Career==

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−	[[Image:Kelvin300x230.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Kelvin MacKenzie]][[Kelvin Calder MacKenzie]] (b. 22 Oct. 1946) is a former editor of [[The Sun]] (1981-1993). He is a close associate of [[Rupert Murdoch]], the media mogul. Murdoch referred to MacKenzie as his "favorite editor".	+	[[Image:Kelvin300x230.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Kelvin MacKenzie]][[Kelvin MacKenzie\|Kelvin Calder MacKenzie]] (b. 22 Oct. 1946) is a former editor of [[The Sun]] (1981-1993). He is a close associate of [[Rupert Murdoch]], the media mogul. Murdoch referred to MacKenzie as his "favorite editor".

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−	[[Image:Kelvin300x230.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Kelvin MacKenzie]]Kelvin Calder MacKenzie (b. 22 Oct. 1946) is a former editor of The Sun (1981 - 1993). He is a close associate of Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul. Murdoch referred to MacKenzie as his "favorite editor".	+	[[Image:Kelvin300x230.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Kelvin MacKenzie]]Kelvin Calder MacKenzie (b. 22 Oct. 1946) is a former editor of [[The Sun]] (1981 - 1993). He is a close associate of Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul. Murdoch referred to MacKenzie as his "favorite editor".

	Roy Greenslade writes:		Roy Greenslade writes: