Letter: A blow against tabloid cant
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: I am sick of hearing reporters castigated for muck-raking. Why do they do it? Because their editors demand it. Why do their editors demand it? Because they have to sell their papers to pay their wages. Why do they have to use these methods to sell their papers? Because the public demand it. Let us put the blame where it belongs.
Mrs M W KESSEN
Sheffield
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