Tom Scotney

News and business reporter for the Birmingham Post

Posts Tagged ‘Law Society’

How law and journalism works – frustration!

Posted by tomfromthepost on March 3, 2008

I haven’t been very good at blogging recently, thanks to a combination of laziness and too much other work to take care of. I’m also finding my twitter stream has been taking care of a lot of the little things I want to let people know about.

But here’s something that’s moved me to write, after nearly six months of frustration. A story I’m trying to pin down that is being held back from publication by – who knows, it wouldn’t be fair of me to speculate.

I’m not trying to big myself up here – this isn’t the Thalidomide scandal or sexing up dodgy dossiers, but this is a tale where innocent people at their most vulnerable point have been messed around. And still the news can’t come out properly, not because of secrecy of anything malign, just because the system doesn’t work very well. It’s almost perverse. Read the rest of this entry »

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