
Margaret Simons
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Sep 12, 2026
WYP After Dark: News, Traitors, and Freedom - with Lenore Taylor & Ben Pike (Ep 23)
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9:05Ben PikeGUEST
I've spoken to a lot of journalists and photographers who have been through it and it is the ultimate baptism of fire.
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9:12Ben PikeGUEST
And I remember, I can't remember who wrote it, it might have been Margaret Simons that talked about, she interviewed someone and said, if you're at news, they're going to stab you in the front rather than the back.
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9:23Ben PikeGUEST
And there's a part of me that really likes that.
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9:25Ben PikeGUEST
And Peter, I too love the tabloid sensibility and we often would laugh at the odds just because of the way that it was so verbose and they would say in 30 paragraphs what could be said in five at the telly.
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson - Getting Murdoched
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12:28Matthew RicketsonGUEST
And so to go to Anne's example, One of the things we found, I mean, clearly with you, they got you in the sense that you're doing something that makes you look like a bad person and you don't see yourself as a bad person.
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12:43Matthew RicketsonGUEST
A few people in that we interviewed, Margaret Simons for one, they got her on her journalism.
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12:51Matthew RicketsonGUEST
Not fairly, not accurately, but they were suggesting that her journalism was unethical.
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12:56Matthew RicketsonGUEST
And to her, that was what cut her to the quick, the notion that she was an unethical journalist, because that's something that she most definitely believes she isn't.