However...

"In their history of The Sun, Peter Chippendale and Chris Horrie wrote: As MacKenzie's layout was seen by more and more people, a collective shudder ran through the office (but) MacKenzie's dominance was so total there was nobody left in the organisation who could rein him in except Murdoch. (Everyone in the office) seemed paralysed ? "looking like rabbits in the headlights" ? as one hack described them. The error staring them in the face was too glaring. It obviously wasn't a silly mistake; nor was it a simple oversight. Nobody really had any comment on it?they just took one look and went away shaking their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was a 'classic smear'."

Posted By: norway, Sep 13, 12:21:58