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Subtext at the Observer

Sep 16th, 2009

I admit, I wasn’t really serious when I suggested that Kathryn Flett was politically motivated in her failure to name one ‘remotely famous’ Carolyn for her recent Observer Magazine column.
But take a look at p6 of Private Eye (no. 1244). Flett may well be leading a subtle Observer resistance movement, with subtext (buried in the [...]

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An ode to the boss, or perhaps not: Carolyn who?

Sep 6th, 2009

Guardian Media Group’s chief executive must have been thrilled to read a column dedicated to her own first name in this week’s Observer Magazine… Or perhaps not. The future of Kathryn Flett’s pay cheque is at the economising hands of GMG, but she couldn’t think of one famous Carolyn for her most recent OM article. [...]

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