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Outbreak! Editor: Part 1

You are the editor of the local newspaper, the Chortlington Bugle.

Word spreads around Chortlington that people with a strange disease are quarantined at the hospital. A local anti-immigration group suspects that a recent influx of immigrants has brought a foreign disease in with them. They organise a public meeting and leafleting campaign. Do you:

(a) Run a factual account of the outbreak and the public meeting.
(b) Throw your weight behind the campaign – whipping up a bit of controversy is bound to sell a few more papers.
(c) Send your top newshound into the hospital to sniff out a personal interest story from the patient's family – 'Builder's son in face-eating killer bug horror'.

(d) Put the story at the bottom of page 5 as there's a great picture of Kate Moss for the front page.

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