Leveson inquiry: Jon Snow attacks 'pernicious' Daily Mail publisher
Source: The Guardian
Jon Snow, the Channel 4 news anchor, has launched a scathing attack on Daily Mail publisher, Associated Newspapers, claiming it has a "pernicious" and sometimes "mendacious" agenda to undermine people in public life.
Snow told the Leveson inquiry on Monday afternoon that the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday was worse than News International's titles and had an agenda that undermined politicians and others.
"There is something more insidious about Associated Newspapers and very possibly they will go after me for saying so," he said. "I believe they have an agenda for trying to undermine or wreck the careers of individual people in public life and I think that is unhealthy."
Snow added that the private lives of people in public life are largely irrelevant to readers and they should be allowed to "stand or fall by what they achieve or fail to achieve".
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/25/jon-snow-leveson-inquiry
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in terms of what they want. Average sales of the Mail since 2000 to date are nine times higher than those of The Guardian. I gues it follows that the Mail will be around for longer. In December they overtook the NYT for online readership so I guess they must have a lot of non UK readers too. 
