One has to take your point Fullchat about the unreliability, the treachery sometimes, of the mass media. But they aren't all trying to make trouble for everyone all the time. They respond well to a straightforward rational discourse.
It isn't just the stilted language and frightful 'caring' tone that police spokesfolk adopt when talking to the public. It's more that their communication wonks seem incapable of writing a release that doesn't sound shifty and evasive.
I wonder if I should apply for a megaphone's job with the Met? I bet people like that are paid four times as much as I ever have been. Reckon I'd be good at it too.
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