And lo on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:24:06 -0000, Stephen <mcavoysATaolDOTcom>  
did spake, saying:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:46:29 -0000, "Phil Cook"
> <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>
>>>> Oo ar well I be in the country so we get a lot of shotguns and the odd
>>>> rifle. No handguns of course since the ban. Incidently we seem to be
>>>> getting increased reporting of stabbing incidents.
>>>
>>> Increased reporting, indeed.
>>
>> Yes I chose my phrasing carefully.
>>
> Naturally, you usually do, I think.

One tries.

>>> But I see little difference from when I was young.
>>> The media loves a panic it gives them a greater audience. Oo ar, Oo ar,
>>> Oo ar :)
>>
>> http://www.septicisle.info/2008/02/book-review-flat-earth-news-by-nick.html
>>
> Part of the artical reminds me of a story I heard years ago when I was  
> working
> for the Daily Record (I was young in those days). The Sunday Post  
> printed a
> story about a baby who woke up his parents during the night and they  
> found that
> the house was on fire. "Hero Baby Saves Family". The Record sent a  
> reporter
> round to the house to do a follow up. When he arrived and asked the  
> young father
> about it, he said that he was the baby and the story was twenty years  
> old.
> If it sells then print it.

Can't recall the source for this, but I read a story regarding a  
journalist sent out to report on a murdered women found in a wood. Halfway  
there he was called back, turned out she was black.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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