[LINK] Police and reporters in Vic

[Jan Whitaker]

[This has nothing to do with Ben Grubb or anyone else, but this story 
is worth a weekend read, just for the dark humour of it.]

Watching the reporters

  John Silvester
  May 21, 2011 - 12:48AM

ONE of the never-ending mysteries in the world of law and order is 
how police can claim to lack resources when they always seem to find 
enough investigators to run around trying to find out who is talking 
to baggy-bottomed crime reporters.

The mystery is why anyone would bother as it appears only senior 
police take crime reporters seriously. Within the inner sanctums of 
the media, such reporters have long ago been identified as lacking 
the necessary brainpower to chase anything but ambulances and hearses.

They are usually selected because:

(a) They will work for beer.

(b) They are toilet-trained (optional).

(c) They cannot spell.

(d) They smell and therefore are encouraged to spend most of their 
working hours out of the office.

(e) They own a raincoat.

And yet generations of deluded senior police have thought these 
reporters are movers and shakers rather than barely employed vagrants.
[continue: 
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/watching-the-reporters-20110520-1ewlb.html ]


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