HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Mirror's Bush attack angers US
shareholder
Roy
Greenslade
Monday July 8, 2002 The Guardian The Daily Mirror editor, Piers
Morgan, has vowed to go on publishing articles critical of US president George
Bush despite concern from an American shareholder.
Last Thursday's paper carried a trenchant article by John Pilger which called
the United States a "rogue state" guilty of undermining international law. It
referred to Bush's administration as a criminal gang which had killed twice as
many people as died at the World Trade Centre.
Next day one of the major US shareholders in Trinity-Mirror, the group which
owns the Daily Mirror, phoned chief executive Philip Graf to express
disappointment at the tone and content of Pilger's polemic.
Tom Shrager of the New York-based fund manager Tweedy Browne, which owns 4%
of Trinity, began by stating that he respected the concept of freedom of the
press.
He did not threaten to sell Trinity stock, but he went on to say, in the most
forthright terms, that his company was very unhappy with the Mirror for
publishing Pilger's piece.
He was not available for comment yesterday, although he was reported in the
Mail on Sunday as saying: "We made our views known as shareholders. We felt that
management should know how we view such editorial material."
Morgan said yesterday: "We will continue to run articles by John Pilger in
the current climate, but these shouldn't be misconstrued as anti-American."
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