I know that if the person I was interviewing was prepared and clear about what they wanted to get across - it barely mattered what my questions were. They had all the answers. They had all the control.
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If only there was an Oprah around when I was a 17 year-old cadet reporter decades ago. Her words would have given me the power to shut down and report a predatory boss.
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We spend more of our time working than doing anything else and yet it’s been found that these hours, on average, are the least happy of our lives. Work-related stress is one of the major causes of illnesses in the West.
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I now realise it wasn’t so much admitting to others that I was working on the ‘dark side’, as journos call it but rather admitting it to myself. After all I had spent more than 30 years in TV news and current affairs. And I loved it. I lived and breathed it. It was a drug and it was hard to pull the needle out of my arm.
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