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Murdoch's Times of London provoked much comment by failing to publish anything about the affair until last Saturday, when it carried a small story on Page 5 headlined "News Corp Puts Its Side in Row Over Patten Book."
The Wall Street Journal reports that HarperCollins, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was to have published the memoirs of Chris Patten, last British governor of Hong Kong, but the two have parted company.
However, it would be justified internationally as being akin to the electoral system that existed in Hong Kong prior to the democratic reforms introduced by the territory's last British governor, Chris Patten, in the face of Chinese objections.
Thursday, the Telegraph returned to the fray, reporting on its front page that HarperCollins Chairman Eddie Bell was "very low" and contemplating resignation after Murdoch's attack; and on an inside page that "outrage is bubbling to the surface in America" over Murdoch's dumping of the Patten memoirs.
Chris Patten, who himself comes from the "wet" side of the Tory fence, sharply increased social spending in his budgets, the business community thundered (rightly, I happen to think) that the proposals had been introduced with scant regard for long-term implications.