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Him all throughout. I love his humor. And i mentioned commonsense. Hes delightful. He always makes me laugh, even now, and ive been writing about them for about 25 years. What should occur to journalist take from his career . Well, i think they should have the courage to say what they want to say, not always be waiting to see how it is being received. Also, he gets a lot of shoe leather. I think in this age of the internet, people are rushed to. They dont have the time to do their research. Pages to the interview on to look it up quickly. He was always, as i say, putting the issue to the pavement. Always researching, al always gg out there and doing the interview. What do you think his impression would be of our current state of news in american . I think he would be very depressed. Very depressed. And i think he would be very saddened to see that print journalism is being subjugated by television and by the internet. [inaudible] why . Because as i mentioned earlier, i dont think peopl
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the author journalist rachel shabi and sebastian payne, the whitehall editor of the Financial Times. Tomorrows front pages, starting with the daily mirror accuses the Prime Minister of causing confusion over lockdown rules after going for a bike ride, seven miles from downing street. The times reports that britains most Senior Police officer has said it is preposterous that anyone could be unaware of the need to follow lockdown rules and served noticethat those who ignore them will be challenged and fined. While according to the guardian the police have set themselves up for conflict with ministers by insisting they will not enforce mask wearing in supermarkets. The metro carries a warning from the government that lockdown will get tougher unless people stop mingling by chatting to friends in shops. Meanwhile, the daily mail says borisjohnson is under pressure to increase social distanc
Spoken to the of the game. I have spoken to the india camp. They do not intend to put up any kind of complaint about that incident. So as far as they are concerned, it stays there. Just something that will follow steve smith around and be a big talking point i think particularly on social media. Golfs governing bodies on both sides of the atlantic have moved to distance themselves from the us president donald trump. The pga of america voted to move the us pga championship in 2022 from the Trump National course in bedminster. Following on from that announcement, the r a have said that turnberry will not stage the open championship until they are convinced that the focus will be on the event and not the owner. Ben croucher has this report. It is an age old argument that sports and politics should not mix. Often a source of conflict in a really inseparable but not when it comes to donald trump and golf with widespread condemnation of the
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