Monday, August 25, 2008
Local conundrum solution
Peter Wilby is right to be gloomy about the local press as things are.
Cut after cut has left the few journalists left chained to their desks, frantically churning press releases into copy which looks like a photocopier created it.
Real, exciting stories? I haven’t seen one in my local, Johnston-owned, rag for a long, long time. But I don’t blame the journalists there too much – they clearly struggle to fill it with what little there is left after their daily rival has hoovered up and reported anything of any worth.
Why they aren’t completely off the hook is that they seem to make no attempt to get away from the traditional news agenda to do something they can be good at, something no-one else does and which people will buy them for.
