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« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2018, 15:56:55 pm » |
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I’d have to say that was mainly the opinion I’d formed. The way they handled the Steve Riches saga was the end. Don’t always agree with the bloke but watching them fill their pants and grovel finished me an all.
Agreed - it was classic corporate cowardice by slapping down the little guy - from that point they totally killed the concept of a free local press.
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« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2018, 07:22:55 am » |
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I never purchased it after the steve riches saga and the lack of journalism as the club faced the prospect of going to the wall. So all in all I hope I’ve played my very minute part!! Hope those who will lose jobs get fixed up elsewhere.
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« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2018, 10:52:55 am » |
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Johnson Press has been sold and according to the new owners it's business as usual. There seem to be questions regarding the longer term according to reports.
Just guessing but I have always felt that because of their perilous financial position editors had been told to avoid printing anything that may end up in a court case hence the lack of any genuine investigative journalism.
Even before Johnstons were involved I doubt that any NBC or NCC Councillor has ever lost any sleep for fear of what the C & E might print and the town has suffered as a result of the lack of a strong local press.
Nevertheless we are well served by Jeremy Casey and James Heneghan, who are both excellent in my view.
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« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2018, 11:15:37 am » |
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Nevertheless we are well served by Jeremy Casey and James Heneghan, who are both excellent in my view.
Interesting article and certainly agree on Casey and Henneghan who have both done well. Your background analysis on Reporting on events in DC era is illuminating and renders the sneers by some on here regarding the standard of reporting as ‘unfortunate’.
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« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2018, 13:45:18 pm » |
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My comments are not unfortunate re the C&E just factually accurate.
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singcobb
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« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2018, 14:07:59 pm » |
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Question. How many of you would be prepared to pay to read the Chron on line and if so how much?
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« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2018, 14:17:55 pm » |
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Question. How many of you would be prepared to pay to read the Chron on line and if so how much?
I would happily pay £20 - £30 a year for a serious investigative, informative source, that is not riddled with adverts and tripe. As it is at the moment, they need to pay me to bother with it. I travel a lot around Devon, Somerset, Hampshire, Wilts, and London. I could tell you a hundred times more about their news and their sport, than I can about what's happening on my own doorstep. It's an embarrassment
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« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2018, 14:19:30 pm » |
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My comments are not unfortunate re the C&E just factually accurate.
No doubt No doubt but Knockings point about shortage of funds and risk taken reporting sits well with me
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« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2018, 14:27:57 pm » |
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It's an embarrassment
Not to my wife for obituaries, births, deaths etc.......not to mention who has been in Court.
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singcobb
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« Reply #29 on: November 20, 2018, 14:38:18 pm » |
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I would happily pay £20 - £30 a year for a serious investigative, informative source, that is not riddled with adverts and tripe. As it is at the moment, they need to pay me to bother with it. I travel a lot around Devon, Somerset, Hampshire, Wilts, and London. I could tell you a hundred times more about their news and their sport, than I can about what's happening on my own doorstep.
It's an embarrassment
The problem is that hose annoying adverts are the only way they can get any income on line.
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« Reply #30 on: November 20, 2018, 17:05:43 pm » |
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The problem is that hose annoying adverts are the only way they can get any income on line.
The problem also is that they are overly intrusive into the reports etc.. and delay the loading of the pages. I give up if attempting to read on my mobile. I do not get that with any of my local online media, which all have a similar format/presentation to the Chron.
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« Reply #31 on: November 21, 2018, 23:01:11 pm » |
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Question. How many of you would be prepared to pay to read the Chron on line and if so how much?
Good question. Depends on whether you are talking about now, or when and if it gets its act together? At the moment I struggle to get motivated to read it and it’s free. If they upped the quality of journalism and got the basics right I’d pay a fiver a week at least. What comes first though the quality and investment or the online equivalent of the circulation numbers increasing attracting more investment? I would say quality and investment i.e produce something that people want to buy. And before somebody from the redevelopment thread jumps on this, the equivalent on there would be investment in the playing side. Not in a prawn sandwich menu and a cushion under your arse in a box. That’s imo.
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« Reply #32 on: November 22, 2018, 06:48:57 am » |
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Good question. Depends on whether you are talking about now, or when and if it gets its act together? At the moment I struggle to get motivated to read it and it’s free. If they upped the quality of journalism and got the basics right I’d pay a fiver a week at least. What comes first though the quality and investment or the online equivalent of the circulation numbers increasing attracting more investment? I would say quality and investment i.e produce something that people want to buy. And before somebody from the redevelopment thread jumps on this, the equivalent on there would be investment in the playing side. Not in a prawn sandwich menu and a cushion under your arse in a box. That’s imo.
I think you are in dreamland if you think a hedge fund is going to invest in quality writers.
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« Reply #33 on: November 22, 2018, 08:08:04 am » |
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I think you are in dreamland if you think a hedge fund is going to invest in quality writers.
I don’t and they won’t.
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« Reply #34 on: November 23, 2018, 19:45:25 pm » |
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When the sports pink insert disappeared so did my interest for the chon....
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« Reply #36 on: November 23, 2018, 22:01:18 pm » |
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Bring back the puddle
The Green ‘Un!
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Baldy
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« Reply #37 on: November 24, 2018, 07:11:36 am » |
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The Green ‘Un!
Waiting at the newsagent around 6pm on a Saturday evening for the Green 'Un to come in hot off the press. A scramble to make sure you got one. Those were the days.
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« Reply #38 on: November 24, 2018, 08:17:38 am » |
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There's not enough papers sold to wrap your chips up in anymore. The old pink un was regularly sold at Euston station as London evening standard didn't have a Saturday sports edition. What returning man u, Liverpool fans etc, passing the hours on the long journeys home thought of Steve Massey's brace against Sc***horpe always made me laugh.
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Aitobs
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« Reply #39 on: November 25, 2018, 21:57:43 pm » |
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There's not enough papers sold to wrap your chips up in anymore. The national papers still sell 6.5 million a day between them (though the bulk of that is made up by just two- The Sun on 1.5 million and the Mail on 1.3 million). Local newspapers are a completely different kettle of fish though, and as a concept are most certainly in their twilight years.
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