As a former local
journo, I may have the advantage of knowing how far - in measurable fact - the
news values of contemporary pseudo-local newspapers owned by large media corporations
drift from those taught on NCTJ courses. But any reasonably detached and
objective person can giggle hysterically at the polyfilla used to fill all the
cracks where the stories are supposed to go.
So it was that yesterday
I was sniggering at some of the district news items with another atheist,
particularly the prominent coverage of a horticultural show in a Ramsey church.
“Why”, we cried out in collective disbelief, “is it news that a church was full of
vegetables?”
After further
consideration we have the answer.
The key word there is
‘”full”. Be it vegetable, animal or mineral – in 2013 any more than two collected in a Ramsey church would be unusual enough to merit a picture.
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