Adieu Miles Kington

C'est avec beaucoup de sadness I have just apprendre that le magnificent Miles Kington has departe from this mortal coil. C'etait le only temps when I enjoyed la francais quand j'etais un teenager quand j'ai read "Let's Parler Franglais." Remember les Francais ne parle pas real 'O' level francais.

Adieu

7 January 1994

"I first saw the truth," said the old man sitting opposite me in the train, "when I was working in Fleet Street a long time ago." This extraordinary, unlikely statement caught my attention immediately. "I thought that people who worked in Fleet Street had extreme disrespect for the truth," I said. "All journalists are cynics, are they not?"
"Oh yes," he said, "but that does not mean they do not respect the truth. In fact, they respect the truth so much that they do not waste it on their newspaper readers. They keep it for their private conversations in the pub afterwards. The story a journalist is not allowed to print is always more interesting than what he was allowed to get away with. Mark you, a journalist also thinks that the way he got a story is generally much more interesting than the story itself, which is very seldom true." See more at the Independent.