Article: City star who took a pasting; MICHAEL GREEN: Sharp-tongued magnet for hostility.

ASK anyone at the senior, business end of commercial television for a Michael Green story and they will come up with one. More often than not, it will relate to his tantrums, his ability to fire from the hip and to think later, to inflict a fearsome tongue-lashing.

Some, surely, are apocryphal. There's the receptionist sacked at Carlton because she forgot to turn the Christmas tree lights off before she went home. There's the time, when Carlton was in merger talks with United News & Media, and he turned up at UNM's head office for a meeting and introduced himself to the hapless woman behind the desk who asked for his name for a security pass as "chairman".

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