‘We don’t talk to tabloid hacks’

AS A SENIOR reporter for the Sunday Mail in Scotland, I was stunned to hear a senior PR at a London financial company tell me they did not deal with tabloid newspapers.

I was calling Data Explorers, a stocks and shares forensic examination firm, to enlist their help in making some sense of the current banking crisis. I even wanted to pay them!

A lady called Jessica in their London office, after asking if the Sunday Mail was “like the Mail on Sunday, only in Scotland,” declined to “waste any more time” after establishing that I did indeed work for a redtop.

“We don’t deal with the tabloids,” she said. “But I got your company details from a Mail on Sunday clipping,” I pointed out. “That’s why we no longer deal with tabloids,” she replied.

I think everyone should know about this policy and should be asking Jessica to think again.

Charles Lavery
Hamilton