When interviewer becomes interviewee
There’s been a saying in journalism pretty much since the invention of the moveable type printing press: “Today’s news is tomorrow’s chip wrappers.”
Although in the post Gutenberg world of rolling news channels, online content and ever decreasing attention spans it’s probably more accurate to say this morning’s news is forgotten by lunchtime.
In fact news cycles are now so fast that you could almost literally blink and miss a story.
But here’s a story those of you who know me will realise I don’t want people to miss. Because it concerns a huge and growing issue – dementia.
On a busy news day, as us hacks call them, I can understand why this story was squeezed out of the mainstream bulletins. So in case you blinked and missed it here it is.
By the way if you’re interested in hearing more about the case you can listen here to an interview I gave to BBC Three Counties radio after the jury returned their verdict.
And you can read the BBC News online version of the story here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4xvlqegp2o
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