Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
I am always amazed that anyone still buys any of the local papers they are so poor on local news.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Can't remember the last time I bought a copy of either, most stuff you can read online. I do have sympathy for the staff of both who have to write about a town they are not based in however if they really wished to cover local events it is easy to find out what's on - we have a dedicated thread here for example.
Could it be that most are at the weekend and they only work Monday to Friday?
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,560
Been reading the Dover Express all my life, but have now recently stopped buying it altogether.
Could put up with Deal news, but the Folkestone stuff - not the slightest bit interested in that.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Karlos wrote:Been reading the Dover Express all my life, but have now recently stopped buying it altogether.
Me too. Hasn't been the same since the Lost Boys went to Charlie's home for displaced journalists and Dubris disappeared.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
I,m another thats been reading the express for the past 40+years and i ,ve also recently stopped buying it.Its rubbish now,barely fit to line the cat litter tray and alot of the news is becoming less local as i,ve mentioned before.I can find out pretty much all that goes on in our town just by being a member of this forum.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Both of the local papers are not of a good standed they do not have the good old kind of reporters that went out all hrs to get a headline ,today they sit in a office some where in Kent and wait or look on the old PC to get news.But all the time they get money in from company,s they will carry on.And they should be free but costing around
£1 each or more their sales can only go one way DOWN.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The world has been changed by the Interweb and local papers will soon be a thing past other than online. The Express is ahead of the game whilst the Mercury lags behind. The former posts anything and everything to get a reaction knowing that each "hit" whether positive or negative means more advertising revenue hence the crass stuff they put out.
There is very little true journalism anymore even nationally, the Daily Mail just carries stuff from their local papers and copies and pastes from the net. The world and his dog film revolutions on mobile phones what hope for seasoned scribes?
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