February 20, 2005

UK Olympics: the media may have lost it

Finally someone in the media has realised that media amplification of Ken Livingstone's brush with a Standard reporter may have damaged the UK's Olympic bid. Funny that it's the Independent, given that it was the Independent that first reported that Livingstone himself had jeopardised the bid and the same paper that published a letter accusing Ken of "holocaust denial". Elsewhere in today's Independent on Sunday. there is an article on why Ken will not apologise and a leader on why he should.

Meanwhile, surprisingly, the Observer has a leader on why the art of apology has become so debased a currency.

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