
John Simpson
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
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You Got a First?
In those days, you know, university graduates relatively few in number. And people cambridge and pitan an, yes, people wanted lotbridge people,. So i actually had three offers, i think a had two offers, one from the sunday times group - which hadn't been swallowed up by rupert murdock at that stage. I was offered a on the reading, i think, the reading evening post as a reporter, which would have been great. But it just became obvious to me, rather embarrassing that they thought they'd got a brain when they hired me... they'd just gota mouth.
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