CONGRATULATIONS to me old mucker, Ben Brogan, who has jumped ship from The Daily Mail to a high-falutin’ job with his previous employer, The Daily Telegraph.
I’ve known Benedict since his days at the Glasgow Herald; he’s one of the nicest people I know in the media and always plays with a straight bat. I’ll miss his blog at the Mail, but no doubt it will re-emerge in some form or other.
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Friday 13 February 2009 at 4:10 pm
Here’s a story for you. There was a London journalist invited to the Herald then in Albion Streeet. He expected coffee and buns. Maybe he got his buns. He was taken straight in to the Press Bar and induced to consume a large amount of liquor over the course of several hours. With what was left of his higher cognitve functions he inquired of his host, ‘Doesn’t your editor mind you spending so much time in the pub?’ Answer, ‘Ask him. He’s sitting over there’.
Arnold Kemp.
Saturday 14 February 2009 at 8:48 pm
@ Jim Baxter…
If memory serves, the Press Bar even had a company telephone extension.