AOG - //Now it is the editor's job, and any newspaper's legal team, to delve into any person's family tree, who may have been insulted in anyway, just in case there is a hint of Afro ethnicity in the family tree? //
No, it is the Editor's, and legal team's jobs to ensure that anything printed in the paper they work for is not going to cause a level of outrage that means the paper is banned across an entire section of a major city.
I have repeated several times that the 'ethnicity' aspect of Mr Mackenzie's hounding was ludicrous unfounded PC nonsense, but that his uncalled for personal comments against a professional footballer, and the hardworking residents of Liverpool being likened to drug dealers, was not.
That should have been stopped by the Editor and / or the legal team for the sheer OTT nastiness and bigotry that it was.
They can't expect Mr. MacKenzie to exercise restraint and courtesy, the absence of those is what makes them employ him in the first place, but, to borrow his own unpleasant style to make a comparison - if you have a large brain-dead savage dog that bites people for fun, it is beholden on you to keep it on a lead.