Brown said he had been bowing his head in prayer
(AP) LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday accused a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid of personally attacking him and failing the British people in its coverage of the war in Afghanistan. He acknowledged, however, that his wife had remained friends with a Murdoch executive at the heart of claims of tabloid wrongdoing. Brown told a judge-led media ethics inquiry that The Sun newspaper was guilty of “the conflation of fact and opinion” in its coverage of the Afghanistan conflict and of his premiership. Tony Blair: I ducked fight with U.K. mediaU.K. TV host: Piers Morgan told me how to hackCameron, ex-PMs to testify in U.K. hacking probe More in Murdoch in Crisis He said that instead of covering the difficult decisions facing his government, The Sun had concluded “that I personally did not care about our troops in Afghanistan.” He said the newspaper had made a series of spurious claims, for example that he had fallen asleep during a service of remembrance for dead troops. Brown said he had been bowing his head in prayer. Brown had a testy relationship with the powerful Murdoch press during his 2007-2010 term in office. The Sun, renowned for its political clout, backed the Conservative party over Brown’s Labour in the 2010 national election. The election ejected Brown from power and produced a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. Leveson Inquiry witness list:...
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