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LETTER FROM BRITAIN

As I sit down to write this, a national newspaperwoman is taking her turn on TV’s What The Papers Say. In theory, the show is a review of the week’s hottest items and how they were handled by the press. Lou Grant this prime-time program ain’t. Basically it exists for something rather sinister: to explain the real meaning behind what obtuse Joe Public has heard and seen.

March 1, 1985
Cynthia Rose

LETTER FROM BRITAIN

TROUBLE, STRIFE & THE GLAMOROUS LIFE

Cynthia Rose

As I sit down to write this, a national newspaperwoman is taking her turn on TV’s What The Papers Say. In theory, the show is a review of the week’s hottest items and how they were handled by the press. Lou Grant this prime-time program ain’t. Basically it exists for something rather sinister: to explain the real meaning behind what obtuse Joe Public has heard and seen. The idea it all boils down to at bottom is a staunch belief that you or 1 or George O’Dowd’s Dad could never spontaneously doubt anything we’re shown.

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