Kelvin MacKenzie the newspaper building at the time because of an industrial dispute, who reputedly demanded that the "Gotcha" headline remain, despite the large number of casualties and later said of the headline, "I rather liked it". This is reportedly the only occasion that MacKenzie ever disobeyed a specific order from Murdoch. MacKenzie's coverage of the Falklands War was criticised by many commentators for being a glorification of war (Greenslade was working with MacKenzie on "The Sun" at the time). MacKenzie was responsible for the "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" front-page headline. The claims made in the accompanying article, that the comedian
The Sun (United Kingdom) BBC's defence correspondent Peter Snow, of "treason" for aspects of their coverage. The satirical magazine "Private Eye" mocked and lampooned what they regarded as the paper's jingoistic coverage, most memorably with the mock-"Sun" headline "KILL AN ARGIE, WIN A METRO!", to which MacKenzie is said to have jokingly responded, "Why didn't we think of that?" These years included what was called "spectacularly malicious coverage" of the Labour Party by "The Sun" and other newspapers. During the general election of 1983 "The Sun" ran a front page featuring an unflattering photograph of Michael Foot, then aged almost 70, claiming he was