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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 16:09:25 GMT 1
Tells us what you think were the best times for the Tele and what were the lowest ones.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 16:16:17 GMT 1
our highest was when rebbecchi was set up by the telegraph reporter when we were campaigning for our flat's status..he was supposed to be coming to our house for a meeting with some of the tenants and us....instead he went somewhere else and the reporter who was working with us got him to stand right in front of the kids with a great big smile and next to it was a picture of the tenants waiting for the meeting....and the words next to it was "what about us" it was a great set up but the fall out for the reporter was quite funny as all his cohorts were gunning for her as it put him in a bad light....she was getting phone calls ect and they were going into the office to see her, she didnt give a damm....it was great........
the downside of the tele was when a new head took over, she wouldnt print hardly anything when we had to fight for the court status again....we were putting things in and they werent reported....she was a right bitch
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 16:22:27 GMT 1
I reckon their finest hour was when they were able to print within 24 hours of the Blitz, an emergency copy of the Tele. The typesetter's fingers were lacerated as they picked the type out of boxes filled glass fragments. I doubt if you'd see that now.
For me, choosing the lowest is difficult but one that really sticks out is when they did a front page spread on the marital problems of a local GP (and a dear friend). It was gutter journalism of the worst kind and quite unacceptable for a local newspaper.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 16:36:57 GMT 1
it beggers belief that they would sink so low as to delve into someone's marital problems...what the hell has that got to do with ordinary folks...you would imagine you would see that sort of gutter press in something like the sun but not the daily rag...must have been short on news
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 16:38:40 GMT 1
The reporter in question was, 'settling a score'. Hypocrite bastard
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 16:40:39 GMT 1
oh for gods sake.....i hope he reported him for that........what a way to settle a score....that is terrible
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 16:43:10 GMT 1
Well my chum's head was all over the place and couldn't deal with it but one or two of us had a word with the editor who gave all the appearance of being in a persistent vegetative state.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 16:47:54 GMT 1
i think that is what the reporters are nowadays....vegetables
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 17:09:32 GMT 1
Baxter is a sharp cookie but he has fallen into a Labour rut. Staying for a long time with a local rag to me is lazy and hardly rewarding to a proper journalist. Still, he must be very near retirement age but who will replace him?  |
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 29, 2012 0:13:39 GMT 1
For me high point was the variorum, what hilarious pish was put in there ;D
Things like
A man was seen walking his dog in coronation park
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A bs conductress wasn't to pleased when a passenger handed her a £5 note to pay for a fifty pence fair.
Those were the days
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 29, 2012 0:29:18 GMT 1
in the good old days they used proper language in their reporting...it had substance but now its a lazy way of doing it
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