Comments on: China’s Page Three Girl Test Causes No Aftershock http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/184173.html Tabloid news for broadsheet readers Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:54:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: chenier http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/184173.html#comment-316690 chenier Wed, 21 May 2008 19:21:39 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/184173.html#comment-316690 '"It is now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.' September 11th, 2001 'JO MOORE, the Labour spin doctor, finally paid the price yesterday for describing September 11 as a "very good day" to bury bad news when she and a senior civil servant were effectively sacked on the orders of Downing Street. She and Martin Sixsmith, director of communications at the Department of Transport, were forced out following almost 48 hours of briefing and counter-briefing which exposed open conflict within Whitehall. Stephen Byers, the Transport Secretary - whose reputation was badly damaged by his decision to let Miss Moore keep her job after she had sent the September 11 email - said the two lost their jobs following "a breakdown of trust" that could not be allowed to continue.' Telegraph, 16/02/2002 ‘”It is now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.’

September 11th, 2001

‘JO MOORE, the Labour spin doctor, finally paid the price yesterday for describing September 11 as a “very good day” to bury bad news when she and a senior civil servant were effectively sacked on the orders of Downing Street.

She and Martin Sixsmith, director of communications at the Department of Transport, were forced out following almost 48 hours of briefing and counter-briefing which exposed open conflict within Whitehall.

Stephen Byers, the Transport Secretary - whose reputation was badly damaged by his decision to let Miss Moore keep her job after she had sent the September 11 email - said the two lost their jobs following “a breakdown of trust” that could not be allowed to continue.’

Telegraph, 16/02/2002

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