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It is probably the BBC obsession with balance that does most to encourage the ‘behalfer’: that self-appointed person who speaks on behalf of others. Whatever the issue is, fox-hunting or sex education; advertising to children or diagnosing yet another newly found behavioural syndrome; the BBC likes antiphonal chanting.
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© 2004 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2004). Behalfers. In: Management and Myths. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403990037_6
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