Union's Press gang
29th December 1979, Page 30
29th December 1979
Page 30
Page 30, 29th December 1979
— Union's Press gang
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Keywords :
International Transport Workers' Federation, International Union Of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco And Allied Workers' Association, Transport And General Workers' Union, Workers' Union, Politics
LARRY SMITH, Transport and General Workers' Union 'executive officer, is the epitome of restraint, even when moved to anger by the Press. "Subservient as they are to the advertisers, with editors willingly accepting the patronage of those subscribers making large donations to the Tory party, it is small wonder that the real news becomes slanted," he bleats in the TGWU Record. Having accused the Press of "lies, distortion, innuendo, half-truths, false reporting, political overtones," he concludes nobly: "The Record will not enter a slanging match with the media .
He could have fooled me.