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Originally Posted by vicz
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Bootnote from that article;
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We tried to obtain an interview today with Andrew Knight via a direct email approach. A Home Office press officer called soon after to say that "I'm not impressed by that... you [
El Reg] do not do that, you come through us. If you do you will not get any response [at all to your queries]".
We asked if it was Home office policy to threaten journalists with excommunication if they try talking to senior civil servants. "No," she said. "It's just the way it is.""
Which part of "Civil", and "servant" doesn't she understand?
I pay her wages, I want her fired.