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Mirror's Bush attack angers US shareholder

Last Thursday's paper carried a trenchant article by John Pilger which called the United States a "rogue state" guilty of undermining international law.

Next day one of the major US shareholders in Trinity-Mirror, the group which owns the Daily Mirror, phoned chief executive Philip Graf to express disappointment at the tone and content of Pilger's polemic.



Roy Greenslade
Monday July 8, 2002
The Guardian

The Daily Mirror editor, Piers Morgan, has vowed to go on
publishing articles critical of US president George Bush despite
concern from an American shareholder.

Last Thursday's paper carried a trenchant article by John Pilger
which called the United States a "rogue state" guilty of
undermining international law. It referred to Bush's administration
as a criminal gang which had killed twice as many people as
died at the World Trade Centre.

Next day one of the major US shareholders in Trinity-Mirror, the
group which owns the Daily Mirror, phoned chief executive Philip
Graf to express disappointment at the tone and content of
Pilger's polemic.

Tom Shrager of the New York-based fund manager Tweedy
Browne, which owns 4% of Trinity, began by stating that he
respected the concept of freedom of the press.

He did not threaten to sell Trinity stock, but he went on to say,
in the most forthright terms, that his company was very unhappy
with the Mirror for publishing Pilger's piece.

He was not available for comment yesterday, although he was
reported in the Mail on Sunday as saying: "We made our views
known as shareholders. We felt that management should know
how we view such editorial material."

Morgan said yesterday: "We will continue to run articles by John
Pilger in the current climate, but these shouldn't be
misconstrued as anti-American."

Pilger's article posted at Media Workers Against War
www.mwaw.org/article.php
 
 

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