Interestingly the Daily Mail manage to report the growing row without mentioning the meat of Livingstone's comment. I'll repeat it here for the benefit of any Mail readers.
"Although we uniquely have some brilliant newspapers and first-rate journalists, their standing is dragged down by what must be some of the most reprehensibly managed, edited and owned newspapers in the world."
"They have a disgraceful record, none more so than the Daily Mail,"
"When it was first set up [in 1896] its first campaign was against Jewish refugees coming to London from the pogroms. It continued its anti-Semitism in the 1930s, fighting any proposals that Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler should be admitted to this country."
"Had Britain lost the war and had the Nazis controlled Britain, Lord Rothermere and his cohorts would have been at the front of the queue of collaborators."
Quite right Ken.
UPDATE 16th Feb - Guido Fawkes has pointed out that Ken's distate at Associated Newspapers hasn't stopping him writing for the Standard in the past. Doesn't make him wrong, just a hypocrite.
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