Chapter 82: Pie in the Sky
In the hall of the Greenwich police station, Arthur and Great Dumas sat to the left and to the right on a podium temporarily assembled from two office desks, while a carefully selected group of journalists sat below.
As for the definition of regular and irregular, Arthur adopted the consistent standards of the Home Office and Scotland Yard, which considered newspapers that legally and regularly paid stamp duty and had a fixed office address as regular newspapers.
In terms of selecting which newspapers' journalists to accept questions from, Arthur had another set of standards, namely that only the media whose headquarters were within the jurisdiction of Scotland Yard, or more specifically, only those based on London's Fleet Street could conduct the interviews.