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Tom Dodds on transport matters »If you read this blog often enough, you might start to get the impression that I am a little ball of ginger spite whose anger is directed solely at the PR industry.
Honestly, that's not quite true. There are lots of people who work in PR who I count as good friends, and many more who I think do a really good job.
But then there are the others...
Yesterday one of our reporters got a story about a health trust in North Tyneside telling the council that it shouldn't allow any more housing developments because its GPs and dentists couldn't cope with the extra workload.
However, you look at it, that's a good story.
Only, when we rang the trust press office for an interview, the response we got was to (a) say it wasn't a story and (b) try to belittle our reporter.
As you can probably see from the front of The Journal today, we tend to trust our own instincts over what's a story and what isn't, rather than letting a PR officer dictate to us.
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