‘Death of journalism’: Fury over Times ‘cover-up’ of Boris mistress scandal | The Times has been accused of trying to ‘cover-up’ one of its own stories on Boris Johnson, after a major scoop disappeared from the paper.

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  1. > Well, he managed to go almost a full week, but Boris Johnson now finds himself in the centre of another scandal. The Conservative leader stands accused of trying to give his then-mistress, Carrie Symonds, a taxpayer-funded £100,000-a-year job while he was Foreign Secretary . . .

    > According to reports, there were concerns about the influence such a story could have on readers of The Times and the Daily Mail, given their base is largely right-leaning Brits. The story was quashed, and only resurfaced to much quieter fanfare later down the line.

    I wonder where these reports of concerns are? Anyway.

    > Former Labour government official Alastair Campbell has [branded the cover-up](https://nitter.net/campbellclaret/status/1538388692078927873) as ‘the death of journalism’ in the UK, taking a swipe at the right-wing papers who ‘make excuses’ for Johnson’s crimes. Needless to say, the senior politician is outraged by these revelations.

    Unmentioned by The London Economic, a fairly substantial chunk of replies to Campbell’s *cri de coeur* were ironic reposts of exaggerated claims of Iraqi WMDs which somehow dominated the press prior to Blair’s Iraq war, showing journalism’s health to be somewhat borderline even back then.

  2. But now the times has an act of attrition. Kind of. They regularly poster the royals on front page. Who knows? Time to manipulate the folks and make space for the future king and his lot

  3. I think we might be experiencing corruption fatigue. People’s expectations of Johnson are now so low that newly discovered indiscretions are not interesting enough to bother reporting.

  4. Half of me is soo annoyed about this but the other half of me knows the right would care about anything grotesque Boris does so the cover up doesn’t matter…..

    He could shoot a baby live on TV and he’d still get 30-40% of the votes along with the comments “well labour would be worse”

  6. I’m more sad with The Times (yes I know it’s Murdoch press) but I thought The Times were above the tabloids .

    Not surprised one bit about Johnson’s actions

  8. If it was anyone else I would have said that lawyers got involved and the times had to comply.

    But with Boris and co, there’s no doubt they pulled in a few favours with their mates at the times/DM

  11. Its got to the point with so many Boris scandals The Times might claim they thought that this was an old scandal they accidentally reposted. Still would be a lie, but a lie that many could see as being feasible.

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