Spinning for Sinn Fein

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The Sunday Times managed to tease out material from an interview that Danny Morrison gave to a journalism student in Dublin, on how he tried to manage the news agenda in the on-going battle between hacks and flacks.

�We wanted to control everything,� he admitted. �If journalists wanted access to the IRA they had to come through us and then we get into a relationship and quid pro quos develop. If people got exclusive stuff from us, then you had a relationship with them where you would say, �Now we have a very important statement coming out tomorrow morning, so don�t let us down here,� and so our story would maybe run as the top item.

Thanks to Broom of Anger for the link.

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