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WHEN TRUTH GETS A KICKING
From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20020130
Author:VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH
ANTON Chekhov (that happy-go-lucky geezer who briefly earned a living as a hack on a national daily) once remarked that "columnar journalism is more difficult and miserable a task than dissecting the sex organs of a flea". And so it is, which is why hacks like me spend most of our time avoiding our contractual obligations, my own worst-ever excuse being the one I once sent to this newspaper's travel editor: "Regrettably, I was knocked down and killed by an Evening Standard delivery van this morning and am therefore unable to file copy" (she seemed positively delighted). It's also why many ...
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