Down memory lane with the reporter who coined the term Beatlemania
26 March 2014 6:00 AM, PDT
I always warn my students* to avoid listening to veteran hacks who talk about the golden age of journalism. But I admit I'm not immune to doing it myself and I also enjoy reading old friends' reminiscences - some of which I even recognise to have been true.
The latest example is an interview on The Surrey Edit site with the former Daily Mirror show business writer, Don Short, renowned for his story-getting abilities.
The piece began badly by wrongly stating that the Mirror's 5m circulation in the 1960s was "more than all the other newspapers put together." How ridiculous.
Fortunately,
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- Roy Greenslade
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