Re: Journalistic Cliches 101 "At the end of the day"

Harvey Van Sickle spake thusly:

> On 30 Sep 2005, Mike Lyle wrote
>
> Re: UK practice
>
> > Radio is different: mere news _items_ are read by announcers, but
> > radio news _stories_ are real journalism.
>
> And the radio news-readers are identified as such: "The news is read
> by Charlotte Green".

I understand that practice started during the war to enable listeners
to identify individual news readers, so that any unknown newsreader
would be under some suspicion as a German plant, until proved
genuine. One such was Wilfred Pickles, whose Yorkshire accent,
although considerably toned down, was considered too difficult for
the Germans to emulate.

--
David
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