Abstract
Hackett looks at the media's obsession with itself, expressed through the many media pages contained in the national press and numerous radio and TV programmes dedicated to the press and other branches of the trade. Navel-gazing has its problems, he concludes, including pitfalls that can inhibit careers:" Another inhibition on the media journalist (odd term really) is that they have to be careful what they say about personalities who work elsewhere. Memories are long in the media business. I have written press or publishing columns myself, but in The Spectator and Campaign, outside the main arena. I remember, in the former, I once took [Sun editor] Larry Lamb to task over something. I received a telephone call from Rupert Murdoch's then number two, Alex McKay, whom I knew well. "Very funny, Dennis," he said. "You go on writing like that and you won't get a job in Fleet Street." He had a point."
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