When Op Fresco kicked off East Midlands news wanted to cover every firestation at the same time as the take-over occured. They did not have enough equipment.
In Birmingham one enterprising reporter hopped in her car, collected two off-duty squaddies and took them to Pebble Mill. They were instructed to wander around in camera, in the background, while she gave an up to date report - from the Pebble Mill car park with a camera hanging out of the window.
A photograph never lies? Well in the hands of a professional purveyor of what the great British public wants . . .
And one of the doyen of the New York press was professionally pilloried for writing 'first-hand- articles about stories where he had never been present. Shame.