This week's UKPG has a splendidly boisterous interview with Kelvin MacKenzie by Rob McGibbon.
Following on from comments about Elton John, McGibbon asks: "Do you have a sense of shame about untrue stories generally? Is there anything you feel bad about?"
KM: No. Nothing. What am I supposed to feel ashamed about?
RM: But you printed lies, Kelvin. You stand accused of printing lies! How do you plead?
KM: [Smiling] You see, now you're getting nasty. Not guilty. When I published those stories, they were not lies. But I don’t really think of it all in the way you suggest. They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue — and that is different. Sure, I would have preferred them to have been true. In my day we used to put the untrue stories on page one and the truer ones through the paper, so by the time you got to page 38 there was nothing wrong with them!
"They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue..." Love it.
Posted by: Andrea Weckerle | October 14, 2006 at 04:30 PM