Mail editor Geordie Greig’s dismissal was part of a family takeover. Stephen Glover deems Paul Dacre as one of the victors
Should you offer reflections about a newspaper for which you write a column, if it’s the media story of the month? However hard you try, complete objectivity is impossible. But the task must be undertaken nonetheless. Geordie Greig has been summarily dismissed as editor of the Daily Mail (where I have a column), arguably the most powerful job in what used to be called Fleet Street. This came as a huge shock to most observers, and to Greig himself. It seemed he had done what was expected of him when he took over the reins from Paul Dacre three years ago. He had been asked to soften what were seen by management as the newspaper’s abrasive edges, and did so, while heeding its ancestral voices. ...
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