What a peculiar, slightly seedy, febrile family the du Mauriers seem to have been. We may not be startled by its members’ attitude to morality if you look at the raw ingredients. Descended from French aristocrats (although this was later discovered by Daphne, the subject of the book, to have been a background upgrade, faked …
Journalist Ginny Dougary asked for her byline be removed from an interview with Clare Balding after Saga Magazine passed a copy to the interviewee before publication. Saga claim that Clare Balding was only given the chance to check the quotes “for accuracy”. Kevin O’Sullivan is a former showbiz editor of The Daily Mirror, Mark Borkowski …
An interview with the all-round good egg and nation’s darling? What could possibly go wrong … until the nightmare of ‘copy control’ started. After 35 years as a journalist, I experienced two firsts last week. One was that I asked for my byline to be removed from an interview I had written, which was a direct …