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Old 28th Jul 2003, 04:42
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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Guys, wake up. Just what do you expect?

Guys, wake up. Just what do you expect?
The continuing demise of the middle man, since you ask.

Just as the internet is taking over from the employment agent, the rental agent, the estate agent, the travel agent, and so on, it has scope for taking over from journalists who just regurgitate misinterpreted digests of real news stories.

It's not everybody who's doing it yet by a long way, but don't underestimate the desire of an increasingly significant number of people to ignore the journalistic interpretations of things like this and go to the source.

I read the report.

In the old days that would not have been posible (well, not without sending a postal order for 12/6 to Her Majesty's Stationery Office and waiting a month), so I'd have been stuck with journalists' manglings of things they don't understand. These days that, and the journalists, are no longer necessary.
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