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Friday, July 29, 2005

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Journalists apologise for failure to prepare public

Media professionals have apologised to the Home Office for their failure to adequately prepare the public for the adverse consequences of the fighting on the home front of the ongoing war on horribility.

The apologies came after a week during which several apparently non-terroristic human resources were protectively detrimented by members of the Ian Blair Brains Trust armed police units, resulting in some disquiet among the more volatile and rucksack-equipped sections of the public.

The Brains Trust - so named because of Sir Ian's famous dictum that the correct way to deal with suicide bombers is to "totally and utterly destroy the brain" - has been criticised for failing to carry out proper public relations exercises before embarking on its campaign of enforced cerebral disassembly.

However, ex-Guardian editor Allan Fusbudget said that the media also had to take responsibility for the public reaction to the incidents.

"The public are often in the dark about seeing the light unless media professionals are there to help them grasp the nettle," Mr Fusbudget said. "Journalists have concentrated too much on the consequences of terrorist bombings to mere civilians and have failed to make clear the very considerable problems faced by armed men with wide powers of search and seizure."

Former BBC director-general and interpreter of political nuance Andrew Marr said that the entire profession should "hang its head in shame" over its biased treatment of the police and their actions.

Media expert Bradley Ichneumon predicted that journalists will have to do "considerably better" in future or suffer a lack of important information.

"In times of war, it is no longer enough to rely on press briefings from the Home Office to find out the correct attitude," he said. "The correct attitude must be a natural state of mind for anyone who expects to remain with their head inside the information loop."

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