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Kelvin Calder MacKenzie (born 22 October 1946) is an English media executive and a former newspaper editor. He became editor of The Sun in 1981, by which time the publication had been established as Britain's largest circulation newspaper .
Three days later, under the editorship of Kelvin MacKenzie and with circulation figures of four million per day, The Sun published an editorial which accused people of "scapegoating" the police, saying that the disaster occurred "because thousands of fans, many without tickets, tried to get into the ground just before kick-off – either by ...
In May 2006, Kelvin MacKenzie, Sun editor at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, returned to the paper as a columnist. Furthermore, on 11 January 2007, MacKenzie stated, while a panellist on BBC1's Question Time, that the apology he made about the coverage was a hollow one, forced upon him by Rupert Murdoch. MacKenzie further claimed he was ...
In April 2012, giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch described the Sun Wot Won It headline as "tasteless and wrong" and reported giving the then Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie "a hell of a bollocking." [1]
Kelvin Harrison Jr. is ready to show fans a whole new version of the iconic Disney villain Scar. The actor, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly that he initially approached his role in Mufasa: The Lion ...
When it became clear that the tide of public opinion had turned against the paper's line, MacKenzie would burst from his office shouting "Reverse ferret!" [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The phrase moved into general usage after it became a catchphrase in Private Eye magazine, initially in its 'Street of Shame' section but which quickly spread throughout its ...
News Bunny first appeared in January 1996, and was played by various people, usually the station's news producers and researchers. Depending on who was available at the time, various other L!VE TV staff were also called upon to don the famous suit in "one off" appearances, including Richard Bacon, later to become a BBC TV Blue Peter presenter, and Nick Ferrari, a previous editor of The Sun's ...
Ashley MacKenzie is the son of Kelvin MacKenzie. [1] Ashley worked as sales director at Talksport when Kelvin was in charge of the station. In July 2014 it was announced that Base79 was being sold to Rightster, with Ashley MacKenzie earning £7 million from the deal.