British Newspaper owner is hatstand

[richardm]

An Interesting Account of a meeting between media moguls.

Richard Desmond is the owner of the Express newspaper group, quite a wide-selling bunch of papers in the UK. Which makes this all the more scary:

Daily Telegraph chief executive Jeremy Deedes headed a delegation at the meeting.

"We were greeted in German by Mr Desmond and his fellow directors, which I ignored, and shook hands.

"He then said 'How did we fancy being taken over by a lot of 'effing Nazis?'"

Asked if Mr Desmond had called him "a miserable little piece of excrement", he said: "I think people can fill in the asterisks, it was a bit stronger than that.

"I don't think that there was a swear word in the language that wasn't used at some stage."

Mr Deedes said it became clear within minutes that the meeting would not be productive.

He said: "It was when we got up to leave that Mr Desmond said, words to the effect of, 'come on chaps' and they then all began to sing 'Deutschland uber alles'.

"One or two of them were giving 'sieg heil' salutes and he was placing the two fingers of one hand in the style of a Hitler moustache as we left.

BBC Business editor Jeff Randall said one of Mr Desmond's camp told him: "I don't know what all the fuss is about, it sounds like your average meeting with Richard Desmond."

Wow. And my mother reads the Sunday Express

 

[Mr Manifesto]

Good ol' Dirty Des.

Say, was British media the pits before the Digger (Murdoch) came along with page three chicks, tits lotto, and all that?

 

[charley_bigtime]

Good ol' Dirty Des.

Say, was British media the pits before the Digger (Murdoch) came along with page three chicks, tits lotto, and all that?

Yes.

Apart from "Viz" and "Private-Eye."