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John Rentoul: a "Labour-leaning journalist" with slavish admiration for Tony
Blair |
John Rentoul really is a spiteful and
vindictive individual, and bad looser which seems to be typical of
those sharing his side of the Labour party. Moreover he is wrong.
By venting his spleen against Jeremy
Corbyn, who after all gained a stunning victory with 59.5% of the
votes cast from all sectors of the party in the leadership election,
(a figure which Blair came no way near to achieving) Rentoul reveals
his acute disappointment, pique and frustration that his preference
gained little support.
The John Rentoul entry taken from
“Wikipedia” confirms the extent to which his bias completely
dominates his journalistic contribution.
He has described having "slavish admiration" for Tony
Blair. His biography of Tony Blair has passed through several
editions. Total Politics said Rentoul "is probably the most
high-profile defender of Tony Blair’s record in the British media,
His column in The Independent on Sunday has become one of the last
bastions of pure, unadulterated Blairism". Rentoul was critical
of Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour Party and regarded Liz
Kendall as the best candidate to replace him in the 2015 Labour Party
leadership election.
An illuminating entry which confirms the view that Rentoul, like
some others within the Labour party, are convinced that anyone who
disagrees with their perspective is either mad, or wrong, or even
both and is therefore “fair game” for their hostility and
sneering comments. The media has been scurrilous in its coverage of
the leadership election and today’s piece of nonsense from Rentoul
continues the alarming decline of British journalism
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