Adrian Goldberg's discusses the history of "attack journalism" and the demonisation of Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the RMT rail Union, with Dr Bethany Usher, a former tabloid journalist and now an academic at Newcastle University. Bethany is the author of Journalim and Celebrity.

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