My route into journalism? Comp school, state sixth form college, writing for the uni paper while at Oxford, work experience at the Times while I stayed in a squat, journalism college, a year on a local newspaper in East End of London on £9k... Yep, privileged all the way. https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/987229001151369216 …
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
I'd say going to Oxford in what, the eighties, when only 10% or so of all kids even went to ANY university, is in itself quite privileged. I'd imagine you made a few 'contacts' there who came in handy somewhere down the line.
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I didn’t go to Oxford because I was privileged. I went to Oxford because I was clever.
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I went to Oxford. I don't describe myself as intelligent, but as someone who was fortunate to be given opportunities which meant I could apply. I know many intelligent people who had far less opportunities than me and never went to Uni. Education does not dictate intelligence.
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Then I would suggest you’re not very intelligent. I know plenty of VERY clever people who didn’t go to Oxbridge or to uni at all. But almost all of the people I met at Oxford were very clever, regardless of their educational background.
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You’re a bit late to this party, mate.
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