Sentences with phrase «story grows legs»

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications, has been attributed with the «golden rule» for managing a media frenzy — if the story grows legs and runs, and is still in the headlines days later, the original subject is toast.

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Considering how fast relatively trivial stories such as this one can grow legs and run all over cable news, rapid public response is a great idea and supplements direct contact with reporters.

Sometimes the best documentaries are unlooked for stories that surprise both the audience and the filmmaker, and this is part of understanding the wonderful experience of watching [email protected] Director Stephen Walker set out to create a BBC tv documentary, perhaps covering some of the ground of previous documentaries about the [email protected] chorus, and yet his film has grown legs and achieved international release as a feature film.