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If you are the person responsible for dealing with the media, perhaps the most important thing you will have to come to terms with very quickly when you are dealing with a major, or even in some cases, a minor emergency is the numbers. You will be inundated with phone calls. I think it’s fair to say that until you’ve been at the centre or even on the fringes of a King’s Cross, a Piper Alpha, or something as tragically sad as Dunblane, you simply just can’t imagine what it’s going to be like. You may have had rehearsals and run exercises, you may have read the Home Office guidelines. Believe me, they do not exaggerate about the numbers of people you will have to deal with.
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BBC (1993) Producers’ Guidelines London: British Broadcasting Corporation
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Ferguson, C. (1999). Television News. In: Harrison, S. (eds) Disasters and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14640-6_3
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