Murdoch journos in crisis as âmaking things upâ added to ânot-allowedâ list
After the trial against Tulisa ContostavlosÂ collapsed due to lies told in court by a Sun on Sunday reporter, those at the Murdoch-owned paper have been left panicking over what they can put in this weekendâs edition. Judge Alistair McCreath told Southwark Crown Court he thought Sun reports and prosecution witness Mazher Mahmood had lied in giving evidence, prompting the response of âYeah, and?â An insider at The Sun told reporters, âIâm not sure where this leaves us to be honest. We canât hack phones, we canât make things up â what else are we supposed to put on our many brightly-coloured pages?â âI suppose we could try reporting some actual news, but do you know how much work that actually involves?â âRight now I can sit here and crack out 500 words on any given celebrity with nothing more than a cup of coffee and my imagination. Easy as you like.â âIf what weâre being told is that newspapers must only report so-called âfactsâ and âthe truthâ, then frankly weâre screwed.â âWe mightÂ as well turn the Sun on Sunday into an A4 flyer that just lists the people who work here.â