19: Tales from the newsroom

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Mike and Matt take a nostalgic wander down Fleet Street to discuss making newspapers and in particular some of the characters prised away from the pub for just about long enough to put them together (or indeed those who found a way to do it without having to leave the boozer)! Unsurprisingly this episode may include references to legendary news reporter Don Mackay...

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome back to another lively edition of the Thought Police. We're getting normal people into this you know.
0:52.2	It's really good. And people can now email us as well as we've said before. What's the what's the email address that they can send us in correspondence to?
1:01.0	It's the thought. No, it's not. It's the thought police pod. Yes. That's gmail. That gmail.
1:07.0	That gmail.com and so maybe soon we'll read out a few more of your ideas because you can
1:10.5	ask us questions. One of the things that people have enjoyed saying about things that people have written about
1:16.5	is some of the old fleec stry tales and some of the characters that we've been
1:20.9	meaning to talk about for ages really properly is
1:23.6	Don McKai. Don McKai the famously legendary kind of news reporter stroke
1:28.6	madman who ruled the roost both at the daily start for a while and at the mirror.
1:35.2	I mean when I came to the mirror in 1999 he was already there so I don't know when he
1:39.2	joined them from the start but he was a man about the same age as me I suppose maybe slightly older
1:44.0	a little older I'm 58 so he's about I mean he died a couple of years ago I think yeah I mean
1:49.2	I think he might have been 58 when he boasted I remember he boasted once to me that he'd been to see the doctor and the doctor said and he said the doctor said to me he said I can't believe he's still alive
1:59.2	said you got the body of a 65 year old and I and he said I was quite pleased with that I said how old I he said 54 and I mean he
2:07.8	drank all the time I mean he wasn't like he was like an alcoholic like most alcoholics I suppose that you know.
2:14.0	But he just drank beer all the time.
2:16.0	He's what you call the functioning alcoholic thing, you know.
2:19.0	And even when, well drunk, he could operate brilliantly.
2:25.0	You know, he was, I have very mixed feelings about McCartney.
2:29.0	I found him to be a bit of a bully in the newsroom.
2:31.0	Some people saw that, yeah, I mean I know a lot of a bully in the newsroom. Some people saw that. Yeah I mean I know a
2:34.2	a younger journalist now who kind of came up through the ranks maybe who are now
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