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Written Interview with British journalist, author, and academic John Cornwell

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Written Interview with British Journalist, Author, and Academic John Cornwell   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornwell_(writer) 1)What was it that prompted you to become an investigative journalist and author? It started with a personal interest in the dangers of pollution in the Mediterranean,  when I was teaching in Canada in the late 1960s. I decided to discover whether it might be true that the sea could become a dead ocean like the Great Lakes of Canada and the US.  I wrote an article: my first feature and it sold all over the world.  I thought:  I like this. 2) In 1969, you published the book, The Spoiled Priest. How did you decide on the subject matter of that particular book? I had spent two years in the senior seminary of central England, studying for the priesthood.  It was an unhappy, although interesting and formative experience:  I decided to employ some of those experiences in the form of a