I know the man at "AIR" and the woman too. The line between hard news and soft fluffy was drawn earlier this year. The driver is "wider-markets initiative".
The BBC and Brian Blessed wanted to do a fluffy film at a coastal resort near here
. They asked if they could include the 'resort' in the film as it would make a make a nice counter point and give a bit of useful publicity. The money people came back, cited WMI and the fee.
This was an odd decision as all the Beeb had to do was move a few yards to the public beach and make the film but without mentioning the 'resort' or even mentioning it in a bad light. I hear a rumour that cooperation might have been forthcoming at a local level.
The problem for Ewan is that any article that 'implicated' the local MCO once the decision to charge had been made would drop the stn cdr and MCO in the poo. Really the only way forward is a covert piece as Ewan started with here or a re-attack at M*** D****** at Air.
One possiblity would be to submit the covert draft and ask for official assistance to complete.
There was an ill-fated RAF magazine that was pulled last year; Melinda was on the point of visiting for an interview and article when they closed it.
Money rules, sad, but the fact that we are
RAF plc and owe a
dividend to our
shareholders - Joe Public seems to have passed the
board of directors by.