Originally Posted by
Mick Smith
to get the media involved has any hope of alerting the public to the issue, thereby putting pressure on the politicians.
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be grateful that people were prepared to alert the media and a few - far too few - parts of the media responded,
Many posters here may be too young to remember when the newspaper of first call in the morning was the Daily Express. If we wanted to know what was going on in the '60s the Express was always the first to publish accurate information. Just two words - Chapman Pincher.
And where did he get his information? Straight from the horse's mouth. I went into the bar of the RAF Club in 1971. My escort at the time pointed to the assembled throng in the bar at lunchtime. He said that journalists outnumbered RAF officers from the MOD at more than 2:1.
The only difference now is that the internet enables leaks from further away.