{"id":350166,"date":"2018-02-28T10:52:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T09:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/right-wing-media-launch-witch-hunt-against-grenfell-activist-joe-delaney\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T09:52:05","slug":"right-wing-media-launch-witch-hunt-against-grenfell-activist-joe-delaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/right-wing-media-launch-witch-hunt-against-grenfell-activist-joe-delaney\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-wing media launch witch-hunt against Grenfell activist Joe Delaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Right-wing media launch witch-hunt against Grenfell activist Joe Delaney<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Barry Mason and Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Three right-wing newspapers have launched a filthy coordinated attack on Grenfell activist and North Kensington resident Joe Delaney.<\/p>\n<p>Rupert Murdoch\u2019s <em>Sunday Times<\/em> led on February 24 with an article headlined, \u201c\u2018Homeless\u2019 Grenfell Tower activist Joe Delaney has flat\u201d with a subtitle alleging, \u201cA campaigner claiming cash for food while put up in a hotel is still using his own home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tabloid <em>Sun<\/em>\u2014also owned by Murdoch\u2014and the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> recycled these smears against Delaney the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Delaney is living in a hotel room after he was evacuated following the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 71 people. But according to the <em>Times<\/em>, <em>Mail<\/em> and <em>Sun<\/em>, he is living the high-life on the public purse, \u201cstill using his north Kensington apartment\u201d while \u201cclaiming food allowances of up to \u00a3300 per week and has a hotel room funded by the taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All three newspapers referred to Delaney as being \u201chomeless,\u201d in quotation marks.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> article is a political sting operation in the best traditions of the Murdoch press, complete with surveillance and undercover photography and unexplained access to Delaney\u2019s personal data:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA <em>Sunday Times<\/em> investigation found Delaney had not regularly been using the room paid for by the council at the Novotel hotel in west London,\u201d wrote <em>Times<\/em> journalist Gabriel Pogrund. \u201cLast week, he was photographed by this newspaper on two occasions leaving his flat close to Grenfell in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Conservative-run Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) council have denied accusations they supplied tenancy and financial records to the <em>Times<\/em>, but no credence can be given to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/28\/dela-f28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Right-wing media launch witch-hunt against Grenfell activist Joe Delaney By Barry Mason and Robert Stevens 28 February 2018 Three right-wing newspapers have launched a filthy coordinated attack on Grenfell activist and North Kensington resident Joe Delaney. Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Sunday Times led on February 24 with an article headlined, \u201c\u2018Homeless\u2019 Grenfell Tower activist Joe Delaney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}