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Dec matches Ant?
There is a word that anyone who has ever worked as a sub-editor is particularly reverential of: public. So very easy to miss out the ‘l’ in it, and, boy, are you in trouble. ‘Gordon Brown addresses pubic meeting’. How nice. Looks like there is another we better start paying more attention to…. »
Don’t sputter. Just say
There is this four-letter word in English that many of us are severely allergic to — and no, this one doesn’t start with… »
Dog bites news
Man bites dog. It is news. How about dog bites cat? Is big news, I just learnt by way of Daily Echo, the leading – and only – newspaper in my little town in south… »
Sex, Church & Siebert
Besides Messrs Frederick Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm, there’s another group responsible for the popularity of the Social Responsibility Theory, did you… »
Hook me, I am available
Amazing what happens when you throw a crusty old subject at a bunch of young minds and ask them to write. I did that a few times in the last two years and came away… »