Ex-Sun editor defends ‘bullish’ style
He told the Leveson Inquiry he did not spend much time worrying about journalistic ethics or which stories would sell more copies, leaving it to his readers to decide whether his decisions were right.
MacKenzie, who edited The Sun from 1981 to 1994, also insisted that Rupert Murdoch never put him under commercial pressure and, in fact, often felt that he went too far.