2. In 1977, John Kay, a reporter recently elevated to an editorial post at The Sun, a leading British tabloid, strangled and drowned his wife Harue. He claimed a bout of insanity. His employer took up his cause and hired an eminent lawyer to defend Kay, who got a lesser sentence
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3. The Sun didn't just pay for Kay's legal defense. They assured the court there would always be a job for Kay at the paper. After a brief stint of psychiatric care, he was back at the paper as one of their star (and highest paid) reporters.
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4. Kay died on Friday and the Sun ran an amazing obituary that praised him to the sky ("The legendary Sun reporter who broke Fleet Street’s biggest stories" "Mate [sic] of everybody") and, mindbogglingly, didn't mention that he killed another human being.
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5. Some thoughts on John Kay, domestic violence, Rupert Murdoch, racism, and the tribalism of Fleet Street journalism:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/celebrating-a-wife-killer?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Was going to make the point that one of the scoops he should have investigated was orthodontia.
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so you're saying the UK's Jon Kay is worse than Canada's Jon Kay? That's something else
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I liked Steppenwolf.
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Amazingly, this is probably barely in the top 1000 horrible things that the Sun has done.
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