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In the public interest or the public are interested?
Pink Paisley Posted Mar 24, 2018
Yes. THAT'S the point. And I'm sure that happens but I'm pretty sure I've never seen it reported.
PP.
In the public interest or the public are interested?
Teasswill Posted Mar 25, 2018
Only if multiple deaths/injuries eg the refuse truck driver in Glasgow.
In the public interest or the public are interested?
Baron Grim Posted Mar 26, 2018
"If it bleeds, it leads."
In the public interest or the public are interested?
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Mar 26, 2018
In the public interest or the public are interested?
Baron Grim Posted Mar 26, 2018
Nope. It's a surprisingly new phrase, coined by a frustrated journalist, Eric Pooley, in 1989.
(I just learned this.)
In the public interest or the public are interested?
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Mar 26, 2018
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