![]() ![]() ![]() And they said, ‘Come on – give us that great industrial stuff you gave the Mirror!’ And he said, ‘Oh that’s not me, it’s so and so – we just happen to have the same name.’ So the fact that William Boot, the man who writes the nature note, ends up as a war correspondent is very amusing to me.” Read more. But then they looked up one day and he was just sitting at his desk, staring into space. So they took this chap out and they wined and they dined him – and they gave him a good salary and signed his contract to the end of time. There was this industrial reporter on the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express was desperate to get him. Evelyn Waugh, Scoop tags: newspapers 29 likes Like Up to a point, Lord Copper. It was actually before I moved to Fleet Street, when I was on the Scottish Daily Express. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 19,786 ratings, 3.81 average rating, 1,247 reviews Scoop Quotes Showing 1-30 of 31 News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. They do make various mistakes like employing the wrong person. Then I found it wasn’t that far from the truth. Before I worked for the Daily Express I thought Scoop was a marvellous work of fiction. ![]() “Before I worked for the Daily Express I thought Scoop was a marvellous work of fiction. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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