True grit
Working for Warwick Roger at Metro gave many of us the jobs of our lives, a lucky break, a career start and the opportunity at what had to be the best journalism gig in town.
Sadly, three of the brightest, shiniest young stars to whom he gave a start are no longer with us: Max Chapple, Andrew Heal and Jan Corbett, in all of whom Warwick saw that thing that he argued talented young journalists have in common with sheep dogs: bright eyes.
Warwick was famous for such aphorisms. What he intended for all the many talented young and not-so-young writers he hired was that they would do what he called “God’s work”.
Metro, of course, did not have a mission statement — Warwick would not have entertained that for a moment — but “doing God’s work” would have been a perfectly appropriate one.
What did it mean? Going right to the back of the cave to check out the bad smell when no one else would. Interviewing giraffes, not giraffe
