I'm a bit too busy to write much this week, so in the spirit of of 'citizen journalism' I'm going to let a reader do it instead.
The email below covers similar ground to others I receive fairly frequently, but is argued with rather more style than most.
In defence, I have to point the 'most read' section on the home page, which is the most accurate reflection you can get of what people really do want to read about.
Dear Sir,
"I have read your paper for many years and over the recent past the content becomes ever more sensational and depressing. Take last week's publication , these were some of the headlines:
BODY LAY IN FLAT SIX MONTHS
SHOPPERS STUNNED AS GANG BATTER MAN IN STREET
POLICE PROTECTION FOR SCHOOL
HILDREN ATTACKED AND ROOFING STOLEN
OFFICER TO PATROL SCHOOL TO TACKLE LOITERERS
MAN INJURED IN GANG ATTACK
POLICE RAID SUSPECTED DRUGS DEN AFTER ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
MAN FACES NEW STABBING TRIAL
I MAY HAVE TO SLEEP ON THE STREET WITH MY BABY
FRAUD CHECK
FINE FOR BUGS
BARRED FROM PUB FOR GETTING STABBED
FRIENDS PUNCHED AND KICKED ME PUBLICAN
LOVE TRIANGLE LIAR JAILED OVER HIS MURDER CASE LIES
FIVE ARRESTS IN BROTHEL RAID
TRIO OF DRUGS DENS SHUT DOWM AFTER DAWN RAIDS
EIGHT YEARS FOR TRYING TO RAPE GIRL 11
FOUR OFFICERS INJURED AS FANS CLASH AT PALACE
JAIL FOR BURGLAR CAUGHT REDHANDED.
BEAUTY PARLOUR WAS DRUG DEN
UNDERCOVER POLICE SNARE DRUG DEALER
SOCCER YOB KICKED PC IN FACE
SEX DISEASES NO BED OF ROSES
These are only some of the depressing headlines in the paper. Couple this with stories about puppies, gas cylinder blasts, creating a town for the rich, tax rise agreed, explosion averted, climate change fear for home flooding,and you can see there is not much left for good news.
Come on Advertiser this is just driving people away from the town otherwise i can see the next headline "Freddy Starr ate my hamster!!!!"
2 comments:
I would normally agree with the writer of that letter, however I really enjoyed the last edition of the Advertiser...
In any case its a lot better than the rubbish you get given on the way to London. When are you going to launch Advertiser lite? or perhaps that should be News lite?
I dont mind a nice bit of Crime news IF its actually interesting.
I think they are all valid stories, put in context they can seem a bit grim but that is maybe a reflection on Croydon itself!
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