Law Society Gazette (main legal profession journal) continues its negative coverage... It has been noticeable in recent weeks that the Gazette appears to want to come up with stories saying how awful the market is at the moment. The examples below are just a few of the recent stories that have been in the magazine. 1. An article on the number of interventions "soaring" in 2008. 2. An article with quotations from management consultants saying that firms cannot sell, others are folding and the property market is in collapse. In neither story did the Gazette mention the numbers or give any evidence of the background to the information they had published. I think this is irresponsible journalism in the vein of the Daily Express and its Diana stories, and the Daily Mail and its prophecies of impending doom! The interventions story mentioned a figure of 22 interventions in something like 2 months, which is not exactly armageddon! Apologies to the editor if I got the numbers wrong.....
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