Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? … - Arthur Christiansen

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My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.

Arthur Christiansen

Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.

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It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.

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News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

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Whenever possible print a woman's age.

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The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.

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Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.

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