I recently read an interesting article in the Guardian, about class barriers in English society, by the journalist Jamie Fahey. One might well ask how many Guardian editors went to comprehensive schools?
Yet, newspaper journalism, wasn't always a degree profession, nor were journalists required to have had a university education. Charles Dickens managed to break into journalism after a relative pulled strings for him to get a job as a roving reporter.
Harold Evans, from Daisy Nook, near Ashton-under-Lyne, left school and got a job on the Ashton Reporter, and worked his way up to be Editor of the Sunday Times. This sort of social mobility is almost unthinkable today in a society that boasts about equality, inclusivity, and diversity.
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