{"id":114086,"date":"2018-04-10T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=114086"},"modified":"2018-04-10T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:43:06","slug":"dacres-murderers-headline-due-to-personal-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/dacres-murderers-headline-due-to-personal-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dacre\u2019s MURDERERS headline due to personal relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Daily Mail ran a story under the headline \u2018MURDERERS \u2013 the Mail accuses these men of killing. If we are wrong, let them sue us\u2019, with pictures of five people the paper accused of the crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The front page is famous for driving the campaign to bring Stephen Lawrence\u2019s murderers to justice. In an interview for a BBC documentary, marking the 25th anniversary of the murder, Paul Dacre, editor and editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail, has revealed he would not have backed the family\u2019s campaign without his own personal connection to the Lawrence family.<\/p>\n

\"Stephen<\/p>\n

As reported by the i<\/a>, Stephen\u2019s father Neville Lawrence was recommended to Dacre as a \u2018very good plasterer\u2019 when the editor needed \u2018lots of working doing\u2019 at his home. Dacre said: \u2018He did a lot of plastering work. He was clearly a very decent, hard-working man. Would the Mail have done it without that knowledge? Probably not.\u2019<\/p>\n

This unusual revelation highlights how important relationships are to the running of the national press. Dacre carries on to explain that he decided to run the front page after meeting Paul Condon, then Met Police commissioner: \u2018Paul said he would bet his life these men were the killers but they couldn\u2019t get the evidence. These guys were taking the piss out of British justice.\u2019<\/p>\n

He apparently sketched out the \u2018MURDERERS\u2019 headline just 45 minutes before the paper went to press, and then forced the \u2018cataclysmic\u2019 front page through \u2018nervous libel lawyers\u2019.<\/p>\n

This is a rare interview from Dacre who usually prefers to shine the spotlight rather than be in it. But it is also a revealing insight in to the power of personal relationships in the British media, and, in light of Condon\u2019s assurances to Dacre, the power a conversation has over the news agenda.<\/p>\n

The BBC One documentary Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation<\/em> begins on Tuesday, 17 April at 9pm and continues on 18 and 19 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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