By Richard Eden Responsible for forcing the resignations of Greg Dyke, Gavyn Davies and my colleague Andrew Gilligan from the BBC, Alastair Campbell has now turned his fire on Channel 4.
Tony Blair's former director communications is furious with the station for a Dispatches documentary it broadcast on Friday, which examined how much it costs to stage the London Marathon and questioned the extent of its charitable giving.
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"I know Dispatches have in the past tried to do over Mother Theresa and Seb Coe, so clearly they like to go for popular targets," he claims. "There is something curiously British about the British media's desire to tear into really good things. So Dispatches did their worst trying to present the Marathon organisers as money-grubbing chancers taking charities along for a ride.
"I know I am not alone in the charity world in being appalled at the misrepresentation of a fantastic event which is so important to so many good causes, and which raises cash for good causes itself.
"It seems perverse to me to attack an institution that gives away all of its profits to charity and which in 30 years has helped to raise over half a billion pounds."
He addes of the race, which takes place on April 25: "The good news is that the event, in a few weeks' time, will be a great success. So will next year's, by which time Dispatches will probably have moved on to exposing Santa Claus as a paedophile."
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