On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Julie Parton wrote:
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> John Beteman's "The Village Inn" .... nicely takes the micky out of
> Public Relations
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> Julie Parton
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And Humbert Wolfe in Punch - some time in the 20s, I think - did the
same for that brand of PR known as journalism:
You cannot hope to bribe or twist -
Thank God! - the British journalist.
But seeing what that man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to.
And although it's not poetry, I can't resist Evelyn Waugh in "Scoop" on
ideology and journalism. You have to imagine the dialogue taking place
between two journalists eking out their boredom in a desolate bar in some
remote and fly-ridden remnant of Empire:
"And all the papers have reports from three or four agencies?"
"Yes."
"But if we all send the same thing it seems a waste."
"There would be a row if we did."
"But isn't it very confusing if we all send different news?"
"It gives them a choice. They all have different policies so of course
they have to have different news."
Jocelyn Paine
http://www.j-paine.org
http://www.virtual-worlds.biz
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