Nothing of that nature was ever "revealed in court".
Sounds like you're agreeing with Fiona Lawrence, SISU lawyer, that Simon Goacher, engaged by CCC, had not investigated the claim fully and had not followed up on all the evidence he was supplied with?
Are you stating that the Telegraph didn't have details of the council's bail out of ACL prior to first reporting it? And there wasn't an agreement with between Alun Thorne and Martin Reeves to suppress the story until after the council had agreed the bailout, in private?
I would have through that a newspaper would value its integrity and as such when claims such as those above are made and if, as you claim, they are totally false then at the very least the newspaper would prominently dispute the facts being presented if not take legal action over said false claims.
Would be interesting to hear what you think of CCC's assistant director of communications Fran Collingham's views on local journalists
Some journalists are crap - and you can use them. You can tell they’re crap when they take the first quote you give them, they use the angle on your press release and they don’t chase you on supplementary questions. If they’ve got a decent newsdesk they’ll be back with more questions after you’ve fobbed them off the first time, but time and resources being what they are on local newspapers you can usually expect an easy ride
I stopped posting because of nonsense like this - and the rest of this thread.
So rather than defend yourself on a forum that you cleary read you prefer to let people question your journalistic integrity without response?
Surely could just reply to the points rather than claiming conspiracy all the time?
If Simon is going to pass comment on the validity of postings on the internet might be wise to start a little closer to home with the Telegraph's comment section.
