Journalists love a good stunt, an eye-catching novelty
It is with deep feeling we mourn the passing of the timeworn Indignant Man With A Prop routine, to the sorrow of ex-Mint president David Dingwall. It's sad, really; this is what it must have been like the day vaudeville died.
Journalists love a good stunt. They've invented a few of their own. But a stunt, by definition, must be an eye-catching novelty. There is nothing novel in being the second person to eat 30 hot dogs at a sitting or fly solo across the Atlantic.
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