Mar 15, 2017
Sports Direct hits out at ‘fake news’ on pay
Sports Direct has denounced as "Fake news" an article in a London newspaper that falsely suggested a top executive was paid 400 times more than an average worker at the chain. The City AM article did not mention either man by name, referring only to the Sports Direct chief executive. City AM said: "It's one thing for Sports Direct to dispute Pirc's analysis but it's quite another for the retailer to go all Donald Trump about it." The online version of City AM's story, which did not mention Sports Direct in the headline, had been read fewer than 700 times, according to a counter displayed on the newspaper's website on Wednesday morning. One such outburst followed an article published last year in The Guardian newspaper, which stated that Sports Direct had paid £108m for a property "On the tattier eastern side of Oxford Street", in a deal overseen by the boyfriend of Mr Ashley's daughter.
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