wrote in message
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No reporter can be expected to know the intricacies of every subject
but a good one should have the skill to research and check. More and
more of the upcoming crop seem unable to do so .

The "upcoming crop" could write anything the market demanded,
providing they were given sufficient time to do so. As far as
current management is concerned, there's no point in allowing
staff to waste Company time in researching anything in depth,
when most of their efforts would be over the heads of 95% of
their intended readership.

In the current environment, in both print and broadcasting
the primary requirement is to fill space or time at the lowest
possible cost. And its only those often unpaid trainees who
can fulfil that need most efficiently, and to order, who will
land any permanent jobs that are going.

In the present context Aldwych Station will indeed be
a "secret" to the majority of visitors to the "Mail"
website, most of whom will probably never have visited
London in their lives. While words such as "secret", "ghost",
and "mystery" while clichéd, can still stimulate reader
interest when used in connection with topics such
as the Underground.


michael adams

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G.Harman