Union: ‘a black day for journalism’

THE National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has described the publication in Sunday newspapers of false reports that Liam Lawlor died in the company of a prostitute as “a black day for journalism”.

Union: ‘a black day for journalism’

NUJ Irish secretary Seamus Dooley said there was insufficient evidence to justify the “lurid” headlines used and too many doubts about the story to allow it to run.

“It should never have appeared,” he said.

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