NSW: MP did not try and sell protest photo, Telegraph editor

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2008
NSW: MP did not try and sell protest photo, Telegraph editor

The Daily Telegraph says federal Labor MP JAMES BIDGOOD didn't try to sell them a photo
of a protester threatening to set himself alight outside parliament .. and only asked
for a donation to charity.

Rival Fairfax claims Mr BIDGOOD initially tried to sell the photos to a News limited
photographer .. but then realised the implications and instead asked for a donation to
charity.

Editor GARY LINNELL has told the ABC Mr BIDGOOD only asked for a donation for the photo
which appears in The Daily Telegraph today.

In Parliament yesterday .. Mr BIDGOOD apologised for taking the photographs .. following
a stinging rebuke from Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD.

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