Ex-Sun editor defends ‘bullish’ style

KELVIN MacKenzie defended his “bullish” approach to editing The Sun newspaper as he acknowledged the paper has now become “more cautious”.

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.