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I'm a television news executive and Public Relations professional with expertise in Media Training and Issues/Crisis Management.
I am based in Tasmania, Australia, work as News Editor for WIN Television News, have my own consultancy called Richmond Counsel.

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learning something new every day

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If you don't kiss your own bum, no one will kiss it for you. (They were wrong of course)

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to become a journalist.

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Cadet (trainee) journalist - not counting school vacation jobs

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everything

Politics, News & Issues > News (Other) Should women who are arrested for prostitution have their names and addresses published in a local newspaper?

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Publishing the names and addresses of prostitutes in newspapers would certainly make them easier to find. It would probably have the added beneficial affect of reducing the number of classified ads in the same newspapers for their services! However, holding the prostitute up to public ridicule or derision and potential damaging consequences to their family, especially children, is abhorrent in the extreme. What long term damage can be caused to a child attending school and being teased or bullied because their mother is a "hooker." Three lines in a newspaper, branding someone for life. Pla...

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