See, the issue is that so few of our journalists are smart enough to get the reference.

TMFTML points us to this gem by Mark Lawson on the end of Fleet Street:

Because the service marked the death of an address rather than a person, both congregation and celebrants seemed uncertain of the appropriate tone. As Murdoch walked past, one old journalist muttered ‘Christ, I’m close enough to kill him’, words which can seldom have been heard in an Anglican church since Thomas Becket.

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