How the Evening Standard Helped Rig a Mayoral Election - Dorset Eye

How the Evening Standard Helped Rig a Mayoral Election - Dorset Eye

In the history of British political journalism, few episodes better illustrate the corrosive power of media partisanship than the campaign waged by the Evening Standard against Ken Livingstone during his time as Mayor of London. From the early 2000s until his narrow defeat in 2008, Livingstone was subjected to what many journalists, academics, and political observers came to describe as a sustained campaign of distortion, vilification, and chara…