Opinion
When a news nose can't sniff out nonsense
25 April 2021 - 00:00
Just what counts as news? A former editor of The Spectator used to tell a story about a posh friend of his who was shocked, on his first day in a newsroom, to learn that he would be required to write about news and call people he did not know in order to ask them questions...
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