Mailwatch(ed) Forum

The All New KevS wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:06 pm "I say, Rothermere. Your paper is being beastly to me. It's not on!"

Popbitch wrote:>> Mail sack <<
Chopping and changing

Drama at the Daily Mail has really kicked up a gear since last week. Geordie Greig's decision to go studs up on Tory sleaze just as his nemesis-predecessor Paul Dacre was having some high-level strings pulled to get a second shot at the Ofcom job appears to have backfired. He 'stepped down' yesterday out of the blue to be replaced by Ted Verity.

It's a shame as we were so looking forward to seeing how Geordie would cover the high-profile sex-trafficking case of his old Oxford buddy and occasional media arm-candy, Ghislaine Maxwell – but now he'll be long gone before the big revelations come out.

The suspicious timing of this exit means there's a lot of chatter about Maxwell and what it all might mean, but talk internally is that the change in personnel is related to Lord Rothermere's announcement earlier this month that he was taking the company private again (a move which is likely to result in a lot of job losses, and a ruthless bastard like Ted Verity will be better suited to handling the paper through that process).

The bloodbath already seems to have begun – with whispers suggesting that Simon Walters and Gerard Greaves are also out the door this afternoon – which has caught many by surprise. Up until an hour ago, Greaves was a hot pick for getting the MoS gig, as his son is at Eton with Rothermere's son, so clearly no-one is safe...
Last thing we heard before hitting 'Send'? That Rothermere wanted a "hands-on cunt" in the mould of Dacre.

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:55 pm 'Mere will doubtless have sanctioned this. The question is, why.

The lefties get in and clear up the non-dom -er - "anomaly". The tories find their hand forced to do just that under the general umbrella of sleaze, Sascha is a lame duck and/or either of the foregoing? Or perhaps the focus groups are telling them that more stories of Meghan's beastliness are the order of the day, (sub-optimal breasts after having a couple of kids, for example) .

Either which way, the mail is headed right round the Der Stürmer u-bend with this patsy at the helm. I am not convinced that the readership will buy it in full.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 9:41 pm You'll get no veritas from Verity.

Martin Clarke to step down as editor of MailOnline

The editor of MailOnline, one of the UK’s biggest news websites, has announced he is leaving, weeks after appearing to be one of the victors in an internal power struggle at its owner, DMG Media.

Martin Clarke, who had been editor-in-chief at the online arm of the publisher which also owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, will stand down at the end of February. He had been at MailOnline for 12 years.

In a statement he said that he had told the group’s owner, Lord Rothermere, that he wanted to leave earlier this year “to pursue new challenges”.

“This has been a once-in-a-lifetime ride and there is simply no other job with DMG Media I would rather have,” he said.

A successor is yet to be named.

Youngian wrote:Tim’s made a startling discovery. Think what he means is they used to put their journalist hats on when there’s a juicy story even if it was a Tory government.

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 5:56 pm Tim’s made a startling discovery. Think what he means is they used to put their journalist hats on when there’s a juicy story even if it was a Tory government.