"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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The tabloid press did not get the impression that it was going
to be a "really bitter season" unless they can't read. What they did
was to say to themselves "How can we sensationalise this?" Thus the
*public* were given the impression of a severe winter. It wasn't just
the tabloids either; the Independent was as guilty as any. Whatever
the Met Office had said would have been either misunderstood or
distorted. That's the press for you. I don't know what the answer is.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Tudor the answer is to stop buying newspapers. It's so liberating I tell you!

Will.
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