In today's Sun newspaper that covers the Hillsborough report, and that Sun headline of the time, Kelvin MacKenzie wrote: "I am sorry that it was so wrong. It has taken more than two decades, 400,000 documents and a two-year inquiry to discover to my horror that it would have been far more accurate had I written the headline The Lies rather than The Truth."
Actually, rather than 23 years, it would have taken 23 minutes in the company of someone who was there, or with a grieving family. You know, doing the job that newspapers are supposed to do, like checking the facts, taking a balanced view, coming to conclusions based on reality rather than prejudices, not simply taking the word of those with an agenda. Kelvin McKenzie never was fit for purpose, never will be and his pathetic apology 23 years too late is about as worthy a gesture as his lord and master's decision to close the NOTW just to make way for The Sunday Sun.
Instead of reporting what was blatantly obvious at the time, he and his newspaper chose to persecute Liverpudlians (loathed after Toxteth and because of the Derek Hatton council) and protect the South Yorkshire Police for services rendered during the miner's strike, rather than stand up for the rights of ordinary people. Thankfully, in the end, people truly do have the power to redeem the work of fools.
I have no idea if there is a heaven or a hell, but in the case of McKenzie and his puppet masters, I truly hope there is, and that he and his kind hang down there for all eternity, eyes forced open so they can watch again and again the suffering of those people that he and his newspaper raped in their darkest hour. You worthless, worthless bastard.
