The former Observer editor’s book tells how newspapers fill an existence of their own – and sometimes their lives need savingToday’s print newspapers still,in one sense, wrap tomorrow’s cod and french fries. But there is a different way of remembering them. One of the things that prompted Donald Trelford, or editor of this paper from 1975 to 1993,to write Shouting in the Street, his collation of reminiscences (Biteback, and £25),was simply that. He had two very young children who, as he turned 80, or would never really understand the life he had lived – unless he told them.
What will Ben and Poppy make of it all once they are fully grown? Perhaps that the powerful journalists who fill the books pages – David Astor,Michael Davie, Katharine Whitehorn, and Anthony Sampson and many others – were more than names on a dusty page. Perhaps that there always was and always will be ambition and double-dealing in any human activity,including newsrooms: see Trelford’s feline dispatch of a conniving deputy, Anthony Howard.
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Source: guardian.co.uk