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I am currently deputy editor at Milton Keynes Citizen
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![[mps.jpg]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zxtyRioOse4/S1mqEdAzKlI/AAAAAAAAAJg/pgnV2g83Xw0/s1600/mps.jpg) This week's Milton Keynes Citizen included a story regarding criticism of local Tories by the GMB union.The crux of the GMB argument was that all the serving and prospective Conservative MPs came from the highest occupational groups and would be better off getting a job in the real world... Most popular posts:
On Friday a man who knows everything there is to know about Milton Keynes will launch his book explaining why the city is great.
Lee 'Scribbo' Scriven, a former colleague of mine and all round legend, characterises MK's 'can do' attitude... Journalism, despite all the industry's failings, remains one of the more appealing trades on the market.
Everyone out there thinks they can be a reporter. They all know when you have made the smallest literal, they all know which stories should have gone in and most of them can take better pictures... Newspapers were dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of their burial was signed by the BBC, the Internet, Twitter and the credit crunch. The bleakness of their future was echoed by that of the world outside... |
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Craig Lewis, deputy editor at the Milton Keynes Citizen, has a dead-on, if depressing, journalistic Christmas Carol
Clearly, the change of ownership has not dimmed the journalistic passion of the Express journalists. Frank would be proud of them.
It is not every journalist who can say so early in their career that they have changed Government procedures |