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Declining state of local journalism
ljonski
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On tuesday i was on a coach in which the driver had a fatal brain heammorage and subsequently died in hospital.
Later on that day(before he had died) when i got back to my home town, i went to the office of the local rag and gave a detailed statement of the incident and how the driver before he died managed to pull off into a layby and stop the coach and save the bus from crashing at 60mph. They said they would probably not run the story as i had refused to have my photograph taken-as if i was somehow important in the incident. We have had some ridiculous headlines recently on the front page featuring sausage rolls and tescos trollies. Yesterday a journo wrote on line ' police ceased the items' instead of 'seized' No wonder my city is bottom of the education tables !
On tuesday i was on a coach in which the driver had a fatal brain heammorage and subsequently died in hospital.
Later on that day(before he had died) when i got back to my home town, i went to the office of the local rag and gave a detailed statement of the incident and how the driver before he died managed to pull off into a layby and stop the coach and save the bus from crashing at 60mph. They said they would probably not run the story as i had refused to have my photograph taken-as if i was somehow important in the incident. We have had some ridiculous headlines recently on the front page featuring sausage rolls and tescos trollies. Yesterday a journo wrote on line ' police ceased the items' instead of 'seized' No wonder my city is bottom of the education tables !
"if the state cannot find within itself a place for those who peacefully refuse to worship at its temples, then it’s the state that’s become extreme".Revd Dr Giles Fraser on Radio 4 2017
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You could perhaps write a letter to the letters page of the paper at some point.0
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i rang up the news team ealier today to complain. Another journo took my details and said they would pass the complaint on and contact me. I also rang the depot and they also agreed that, but for his actions, it could have been much worse."if the state cannot find within itself a place for those who peacefully refuse to worship at its temples, then it’s the state that’s become extreme".Revd Dr Giles Fraser on Radio 4 20170
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You must be from my neck of the woods. Are we talking about the sausage-roll dropping incident?0
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"local journalism" - an oxymoron surely???0
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You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(Thank God! ) the British journalist
But then there's no occasion to
When seeing what unbribed he'll do.I am a cow so cannot speak Bullshine but I do recognise its smell when I come upon it.0 -
A further update- the local BBC are keen to do a story as i have nominated Him for a "Hero of the Community Award""if the state cannot find within itself a place for those who peacefully refuse to worship at its temples, then it’s the state that’s become extreme".Revd Dr Giles Fraser on Radio 4 20170
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I saw the most tedious link to our county in the local rag the other day -
An artist from the other side of the country is having her artwork put up in the London Underground, and someone semi-famous who doesn't even live in our county anymore, said that it was great."Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
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Crazy_Jamie wrote: »Was that local news? If so we're all from the same region.
Well I'm not in Manchester, I suppose it's not impossible that every city has someone whose child dropped a bit of sausage roll in the street and got a £70 fine for so doing!0
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