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Fri 01 Jan 2010Response to crisis shaped by journalists' prejudices
Media professionals’ odd mix of sour grapes, guilt and egalitarianism threatens to affect our chances of recovery, writes JOHN WATERS
EVERY SO often, a journalist peels him- or herself off from the pack and goes into PR, “consultancy” or the law, and immediately seems to become unfathomably richer. This syndrome is one of the great puzzles confronting modern journalists, who, on encountering former colleagues sporting off-season suntans or impossibly shiny shoes, are moved to wonder where it all went wrong for themselves. It is rarely helpful that the defectors are never the most outstanding scribes, but rather the kind who just made the first team and rarely put the ball in the net.
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