In a candid 2008 speech on press freedom, Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, admitted what was really at stake: commercial survival.

在2008年的一次坦率的关于媒体自由的演讲中，每日邮报的主编保罗达克尔对真正的赌注直言不讳：商业生存。

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The company's editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, has denied the allegations, describing them as "mendacious smears".

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