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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Ian Dunt meets FLEET STREET FOX

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Infamous anonymous blogger FLEET STREET FOX lifted the lid on the seedy world of tabloid journalism in the Leveson years – then in 2013 unmasked herself as Mirror columnist Susie Boniface. She tells Ian Dunt how being a total pain in the arse is the way to get into journalism, where the loathing of hacks really comes from… and why the credibility of print goes all the way back to Babylonian tax inspectors. Audio note: features guest appearance by a dog. • “I started in journalism because I couldn’t stand the idea of other people doing it and getting it wrong” • “Is journalism a dying industry? It’s been dying since the first newspaper was printed!” • “The human mind has been bred to think that if something is in black and white print, it’s fact” https://www.susieboniface.com Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

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0:22.0

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0:28.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.0

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0:36.7

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0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and today I'm talking to the bunker daily, my name's Ian Dunt and today I'm talking to Susie Bonneface aka Fleet Street Fox or perhaps I should be Fleet Street Fox

1:16.3

aka Susie Bonneface we will work that out as we go.

1:18.8

Susie's career started at just 18 at the Kenton Sussex Courier. She's since freelance reported for, well pretty much everyone, actually.

1:26.0

But it's perhaps best known for her Daily Mirror Column,

1:28.4

her prolific Twitter presence, her anonymous blog,

1:31.4

and her books, which include The Bl Bluffers Guide to Social Media,

1:34.4

The Bluffers Guide to Journalism and Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox.

1:38.0

Hello Susie, how are you?

1:39.0

I'm fine, thank you, how are you, Ian?

1:41.0

Yes, not too bad, not too bad at all.

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