A LITTLE GLIMPSE INTO THE WORLD OF MEDIA WHORES.

Liam Clarke 1980.

This is taken from Lobster 1995 issue 30

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Liam Clarke and the Sunday Times

Erstwhile Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade boldly put his toe into the cesspit of the British media's relationship with the state in a piece in the Media section of the Guardian, 7 August 1995. His major focus was on the Northern Ireland reporting of Liam Clarke. And about Mr Clarke there is a story to tell.


When I was trying to get the major media to take the allegations of Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd seriously, there were a number of journalists who appeared to be on their side, to whom I (and Wallace and Holroyd) spoke freely.



Liam Clarke, then in Northern Ireland running an agency called Irish Features (if memory serves), was one of them. Clarke wrote a number of long pieces about Wallace and Holroyd - and about Kincora - for the Catholic end of the Irish media. (See, for example, 'Framed? The spy caught up in his own web of intrigue', Sunday World, 31 May 1987, 'Garda "Spy" Now A Hero', Sunday World, May 3, 1987, and 'The MI5 Plot to Smear Paisley', Sunday World, May 17 1987.) Occasionally his name would appear in the Sunday Times on small bits.

This all changed when he moved out of Northern Ireland to the mainland UK, apparently under the protection of the British state after some kind of threat. Quite soon after this news whistled round the grapevine, he rang me up. His tone had changed, Where once he had been friendly and chatty, now he was trying to pump me - and pretty crudely at that. I froze on him and the phone call ended quickly. He never called me again; and, to my knowledge, never wrote another friendly piece about Wallace and Holroyd.

In his Guardian piece Greenslade reports the opinions of a number of (anonymous) journalists on the unreliable, frequently intelligence-sourced nature of the Sunday Times' recent reporting on Northern Ireland. In fact the spook fix was in at least seven years ago when James Adams became the Sunday Times' defence correspondent and began running interference for MI5 at the Wapping gulag.

I wrote to Mr Greenslade pointing out these earlier events but to date have received no reply.
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Why don`t you sue Lobster Liam ?

You cannot help wondering whose agenda Liam Clarke is pushing in this article from a few weeks ago?

Psalm 12:3-5
3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.