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This here journalism combines two things:

1. a need to know everything, and
2. the desire to be heard, to imagine, however fleetingly, that people are actually paying attention to what I’ve been saying, positively or negatively

Naturally, I’d prefer positively.

So when this afternoon Cat found a photocopy - a photocopy! - of my piece on the Stern report, with several paragraphs highlighted, in the ladies’ toilets in university these came crashing together.

What were they doing with it, and why? I’ll probably never know. Point two fulfilled, for good or for bad. Point one’s out though.

(I should stress at this point that the article as it appeared in print bore no more than a passing resemblance to that which I submitted, oweing to some truly dreadful subediting. A shadow of its original self, it was. A shadow.)

UPDATE: Tell a lie, I do have an idea. We’re doing a press conference exercise with the PR students - on the Stern Review. Apparently some of them have been looking at my article, presumably pre-empting my questions.

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