A growing number of pundits are wondering why the mainstream press aren't writing much - if anything - about Lee Jasper. The London mayor's race adviser has been subjected to a stream of allegations made by Andrew Gilligan, the investigative reporter, in the Evening Standard.
Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, was fuming to me the other day at how the story was being ignored by papers including the FT.
I did write a news story last night but it was spiked at midnight by one of my editors (mainstream media gatekeepers).
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
FT blog questions media silence on Lee Jasper
From the Financial Times Westminster blog:
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