BRITS TAKE TO THEIR HYPEWRITERS

Prince Charles and his now-legal paramour, Camilla, are being trailed on their visit to the U.S. by a ragged army of U.K. reporters, each determined to come up with the royal goods, no matter how remote from reality. British news hounds were skewered 75 years ago by fellow Brit Humbert Wolfe in his famous ditty:
THE BRITISH JOURNALIST
[Actual title: “Over the Fire”]
You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there’s
no occasion to.
In the intervening decades, things have gotten no better. Leon Freilich, a Yank from Brooklyn with Brit connections, observes:
THE BRITISH JOURNALIST, STILL
You can expect
so very much
from someone with
the British touch!
The man’s a master
of depiction
and uses all
the ways of fiction.

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