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Exclusive!: The Last Days Of Fleet Street - My Part In Its Downfall
On a hot sunny day last August the final newspaper still working from an office on London's Fleet Street called 'stop the press' and closed its doors for the final time Thirteen days later it was the turn of award-winning journalist Maurice Chittenden to make his excuses and leave He was fired from The Sunday Times after a Fleet Street career lasting almost forty years one that saw him working for a trio of legendary Murdoch editors Andrew Neil Kelvin Mackenzie and Derek Jameson In a rip-roaring trip through his career he tells how he was involved (accidentally of course) in the first ever telephone bugging of a member of the Royal Family twenty years before such skulduggery was even thought possible helped solve the murder of schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson and was credited with bringing
down a Tory government He arrived too late to save his boss the embarrassment of the Hitler diaries but he exposed the supposed Jack the Ripper confessions and Roswell alien autopsy film as fakes He sparked a diplomatic incident when he was thrown into jail in Borneo over a lobster One of the last surviving combatants in The Battle of Wapping in which an attack on his car led to a police cavalry charge and a bloody riot he is the most by-lined reporter in The Sunday Times history with up to seven by-lines a week His career mirrored the rise and fall of Fleet Street and he freely admits that his own excesses played a part in its downfall The Fleet Street he remembers with fondness no longer exists But its reputation as the 'Street of Shame' survives in the name of the column in Private Eye
which afforded him the plaudit of 'the legendary Maurice Chittenden' in its report of his professional demise
down a Tory government He arrived too late to save his boss the embarrassment of the Hitler diaries but he exposed the supposed Jack the Ripper confessions and Roswell alien autopsy film as fakes He sparked a diplomatic incident when he was thrown into jail in Borneo over a lobster One of the last surviving combatants in The Battle of Wapping in which an attack on his car led to a police cavalry charge and a bloody riot he is the most by-lined reporter in The Sunday Times history with up to seven by-lines a week His career mirrored the rise and fall of Fleet Street and he freely admits that his own excesses played a part in its downfall The Fleet Street he remembers with fondness no longer exists But its reputation as the 'Street of Shame' survives in the name of the column in Private Eye
which afforded him the plaudit of 'the legendary Maurice Chittenden' in its report of his professional demise
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