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Specialist treatment While we're at it how about proper economic corespondents too? ( Why unions deserve specialist coverage, 13 September ). Coverage of both industrial relations and economics has been taken over by business reporters who see everything through the prism of what's good for business and the city, and whether shares are going up or down short term. Where are the academic economists on news segments? They would give a different and arguably more balanced view than one obtained by some business reporter asking the chief economist of a mortgage bank about house prices for instance. Is it likely that he's going to get an answer uncoloured by the interests of his employer? whitworthflange online • Christine Buckley names the Press Association's Alan Jones as the UK's sole remaining industrial correspondent. Not so. Although it has a very small circulation, the Morning Star is nevertheless a national daily newspaper that focuses much of its reporting on – and largely supports – the unions and has one full-time industrial reporter, Paul Haste. Ian Sinclair London • Such a fine piece by Christine Buckley, Any chance that she could replace Simon Jenkins? Impossible, you might say, but I'm a Spurs supporter. I have to be optimistic. Gordon Vassell Hull No end in sight Gill Phillips argues that the granting of injunctions "to cover up a variety of affairs" is partly due to misogyny ( Rooney's infidelity exposes law's misogyny , 13 September). Yet all that would be achieved in not granting them is that the men would be exposed to "the court of public opinion" as a "love rat" or – to use suitably Victorian terms – as a "cad" and a "bounder". The tabloids are perfectly capable of coming over all sanctimonious about extra-marital or "kinky" sex, let alone those Phillips believes "treat women as lumps of meat", since neither adultery nor paying for sex is illegal, but they apparently make great copy. Phillips would have to get the laws on prostitution changed, rather than the ones for libel or privacy, if she wants to put an end to such activity. D. Cameron Stoke-on-Trent Speech-less James Murdoch has the cheek to call the BBC's activities "chilling" ( This scandal wasn't in News Corp's plan for world domination , 13 September). No more media lectures from him, his family or his company, thanks. Bushmills online