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Times Editor William Rees-Mogg defended his editorial as a needed blow against what he sees as an "increasing trend in Fleet Street to competitively intrude into people's private lives." Many Britons seemed to agree. The four offending papers were deluged with letters expressing sympathy for George-Brown. The Daily Mail devoted its entire letters page to complaints on the matter-but noted that it did so because "newspapers, like politicians, operate in the public arena...
London Times Editor William Rees-Mogg recently started a controversy by attacking U.S. press coverage of the Watergate investigation and arguing that British papers have more respect for the rights of suspects. British restraint, he argued, protected "universal principles" of justice. He had hardly returned to London from a U.S. visit when an uncomfortable reminder of that restraint was visited on his paper...
...leader, written by Times Editor William Rees-Mogg, gave full credit to the journalists who originally made crucial disclosures. But now, Rees-Mogg contended, the televised Senate hearings, the leak-prone grand jury investigation and the publication of assorted prejudicial statements have pulverized due process. He said, in effect, that Nixon is being convicted in a kangaroo court of public opinion...
...Post, which Rees-Mogg had singled out for special blame, along with the New York Times, replied that...
...When you think the government is using D-Notices to cover up something," says Editor William Rees-Mogg of the London Times, "then the system breaks down. If you get to the point the American press reached with President Johnson, and where, I suppose, it has reached with the present Administration, then D-Notices are not any good." The U.S. Government and press, Rees-Mogg speculates, will have to look elsewhere for a solution to the problem...