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Monkey

Murdoch has another jibe at the Financial Crimes

Lionel Barber
Revenge can be tweet … the FT says it knows of no talk of revenge from editor Lionel Barber. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

After just over a month and 115 tweets, Rupert Murdoch appears to be getting the hang of this Twitter lark. Two days after slapping down the Financial Times's "Sun on Sunday delayed by Sun arrests" story as "100 per cent wrong", KRM comes dancing out of his corner with another electronic haymaker: "FT editor boasts about 'revenge'. Imagine Richard Lambert or Geoff Owen engaging in such bias." Fight! Fight! An FT source tells Monkey the mild-mannered folk at the Pink 'Un are bemused by this latest snipe, professing to know nothing of any talk of revenge from Lionel Barber. Still, Monkey is hoping this one will blow up into a Twitter spat on the scale of, ooooh … any involving showbiz journalist Dan Wootton. Then it's "Ginger – get the popcorn!" time.

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