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18th June 1987, Page 34
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attached example of "Headline Writers' Hysteria" as it applies to our industry.
The report, about a proposal for a new access road to Ramsgate Ferry Terminal, is fair and even handed — as it should be.
The headline "Juggernaut misery feared by users of popular beach" bears so little relation to anything in the article that one wonders whether the headline writer actually read it.
The word 'juggernaut' does not appear in the text of the article. Nor even does the word 'misery'. Nor does 'fear'. Nor does the concept of a 'popular beach'.
Is it any wonder that 'misery' and 'fear' should exist in the minds of the general public when this sort of irresponsible fabrication is put forward in the name of journalism?
Chris Roe
Broadstaits Kent.
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