Roy Greenslade?
Dagenham lad, formerly of the Sun, Star, Express and Mirror and Sunday Times, right? Professor of Journalism at City University? Now writing for the Guardian? Surely not!
This, from Stephen Glover in the Indie:
Few people are aware that The Guardian’s media sage has affiliations with Sinn Fein. During the late 1980s, when he was managing news editor of The Sunday Times, he secretly wrote for An Phoblacht, the Sinn Fein newspaper, which then served as a propaganda sheet for the Provisional IRA. His pseudonym was George King. We know this from Flat Earth News by Nick Davies, a Guardian colleague and instigator of the journalistic investigation into phone hacking. When Mr Greenslade reviewed Mr Davies’s book on his blog in 2008, he did not deny what some may regard as a pretty serious allegation. In a more recent blog, he described Mr Davies as his friend.
The connections endure. Last June, Mr Greenslade spoke at a Sinn Fein conference in London on the 30th anniversary of the hunger strikes, and he wrote an article on the same subject for An Phoblacht . He has had a house in County Donegal for many years. One friend is Pat Doherty, from 1988 until 2009 vice president of Sinn Fein, who has been named as a former member of the IRA Army Council.
This emerges from a discussion about Greenslade’s hostility to his Observer colleague Henry McDonald. Apparently, the problem is that McDonald is insufficiently nice about his psychopathic former mass murdering terrorist mates.
Well, Greenslade has kept this quiet. I’m not at all surprised.