Why Suffolk Can't Satisfy a Desperate Press Pack ; Media
Evening Standard - London › December 20, 2006
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THERE is a line in a play by Tom Stoppard that tends to be quoted rather too often: "I'm with you on the free press," says one of his characters in Night and Day, "it's the newspapers I can't stand." But a variation of that adage has sprung to my mind several times in the past week as I've watched journalists go about their business in Ipswich.See the full content of this document
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Why Suffolk Can't Satisfy a Desperate Press Pack ; Media
I'm with the reporters as they try to cover a big story - it's the fact that so many of them are doing it at the same time than I can't stand. The pack, bigger by far than in days gone by, is terrible to behold.
Journalists in their hundreds have descended on Suffolk, each one attempting to fulfil two impossible agendas: they must have everything that everyone else has and they must also get scoops nobody else can.That situation is made infinitely worse with the insistent demands of 24-h...See the full content of this document
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