Ian Apperley writes: One of the more interesting things that you get to participate in as a fine upstanding representative of the media is the famous “media junket.” Now, if you took the two words, applied some poetic licence (see www.dictionary.com) then you could be forgiven for thinking that a media junket is a dessert made from flavoured milk and rennet that originated from a country south west of Asia which, was settled by Indo-European people and became a part of the Assyrian Empire before being conquered by Cyrus the Great. [More]