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YRTELNO 1304: LORD CAITHNESS'S PRESS ARRANGEMENTS
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1 THE GROUP OF LOCAL EDITORS THAT I BRIEF FROM TIME TO TIME CONSISTS OF:
SCMP (USUALLY PHILIP CRAWLEY, BUT NOW PETER LYNCH, AS CRAWLEY IS
ON LEAVE)
WAH KIU YAT PAO (SHUM CHOI-SANG)
ECONOMIC JOURNAL (SALLY LIN)
MING PAO (Y.P. CHENG)
HONG KONG STANDARD (MIKE SIMMS)
RTHK (TERRY NEALON)
SING PAO (DOUGLAS CHENG)
2. FOR THE ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS, WE SUGGEST FIVE MINUTES EACH WITH THE TWO LOCAL TV AND TWO LOCAL RADIO STATIONS, AND ONE ENGLISH AND ONE CHINESE NEWSPAPER, PROBABLY SCMP AND MING PAO. WE ASSUME LORD CAITHNESS WOULD ALSO WANT TO SPEAK TO BBC RADIO.
3. IT IS PERFECTLY POSSIBLE TO ARRANGE TO HAVE THE MEDIA IN A SEPARATE ROOM DURING THE COMMUNITY LUNCH. HOWEVER, OUR NORMAL PRACTICE IS TO ALLOW THEM TO BE PRESENT DURING A SPEECH OR A STATEMENT, AND THEN TO HAVE THEM WITHDRAW (TO A SEPARATE ROOM) BEFORE THE QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION. THIS IS LIKELY TO CAUSE LESS ILL FEELING.
4. I AGREE THAT A FINAL DECISION ON A PRESS CONFERENCE CAN SENSIBLY BE TAKEN LATER. ONE POSSIBILITY WOULD BE TO USE THE KAI TAK PRESS ROOM FOR A FINAL STATEMENT AND A MINI CONFERENCE PRIOR TO LORD CAITHNESS'S DEPARTURE, ALTHOUGH THIS WILL OF COURSE BE ON A SUNDAY MORNING.
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