Veterans of the Newspaper Wars Show Their Scars Papers: History Papers: History Bbc Series Tells the Story of Scotland's Hacks

Sunday Herald › October 19, 2006

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A DAILY Record reporter picked up one of the phones on the news desk. It was an evening in the late 1980s. It was a voice the reporter knew well, but he would hardly have expected to hear on the telephone speaking to him.

"You need to undershtand who thish ish. I'm very litigioush, you know, " the voice said, sounding shaken but certainly not stirred.

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Veterans of the Newspaper Wars Show Their Scars Papers: History Papers: History Bbc Series Tells the Story of Scotland's Hacks

"I undershtand you've written a shtory about me for tomorrow'sh paper.

I want you to read it out." The reporter did as he was told, reading out every last paragraph of how Sean Connery had taken his first lover at 14.

When he had finished there was a pause on the other end of the line. "I have to shay that I would be very unhappy if you ran that shtory, " the...

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