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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 ...
The newspaper was banned by Everton F.C. in April 2017 after The Sun published a column by former editor Kelvin MacKenzie the day before the 28th anniversary of the disaster which included a passage about footballer Ross Barkley that was considered "appalling and indefensible" and included a racist epithet and insults against the people of ...
Former editor of the Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie, said it would have been "massively damaging" had the company's chief executive Rebekah Brooks been forced to give evidence at a trial.
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]
In February 2017, Liverpool F.C. issued a ban on The Sun journalists from entering their grounds in response to the coverage of Hillsborough by the newspaper. [290] Everton F.C. followed in April 2017 on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the disaster after a column by Kelvin MacKenzie concerning Everton footballer Ross Barkley. MacKenzie was ...
But as fate plays out, in the end Samantha gets her man. The comedy was a box office success, earning $23 million after being made for a budget of $6 million, but its legacy as a cult favorite has ...
In 2017, Kelvin MacKenzie's review of Ink, a play about the history of The Sun, [16] described the portion of the play about McKay's kidnapping as its "most dramatic moment". [11] Jane Martinson, in her review for The Guardian, described that portion of the play as its "most uncomfortable moment". [17]