No end in sight for ‘fake sheikh’ drama
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 24 April 2006 at 15:24
Tags: Journalism, News of the World
The Fake Shiekh saga continued this weekend in the Independent on Sunday as News of the World editor Andy Coulson responded to Roy Greenslade’s attack on his investigations editor last week.
The former Mirror editor and City University journalism professor has long been an outspoken critic of Mazher Mahmood’s undercover antics and has supported MP George Galloway’s distribution of photographs of the journalist.
Coulson attacked Greenslade’s “obsessive hostility to our award-winning investigations editor” and defended Mahmood’s methods. “Subterfuge is an essential tool in the craft of investigative journalism,” he writes.
Coulson also rejected Greenslade’s call to retire the ‘fake sheikh’: “Maz will continue to operate as the sheikh and will also use a number of new identities we have created.”
Tags: Journalism, News of the World
