Yet, a five alarm fire, that destroyed a local boat yard, with a forty
year history, and, which put probably 40-50 people out of work, never,
and I mean never, made it into the local news, either print of
broadcast, a few years ago. Which is about the time I stopped reading
the local and regional papers.
As Carl Kolchak, (obscure pop reference), used to say, "That's News!"
But, it would require actually having local reporters and stringers to
report it. Maybe, even pay for a photographer.
I find it even more annoying when events such as a chicken snarl or duck
walk, appears in a paper after a major event is essentially ignored.
These people think that the internet is killing newspapers and
television news, but that's not true, those institutions are killing
themselves.
On 9/16/2015 1:18 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 05:03:29PM +1200, David Mann wrote:
On Sep 16, 2015, at 7:04 am, Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote:
I don't agree that's it's a sad commentary - popular papers and magazines have
always published human interest (so to speak) stories - think of the number of
times you've seen little features about holding up the traffic for ducklings to
cross the road, or skateboarding dachshunds etc.
Funny, there was just such a story here the other day.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/71867973/ducklings-get-to-safety-with-police-escort
A week ago a chicken snarled up traffic on the Bay Bridge, and that
not only got into the papers, it made the television news as well.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-bay-bridge-chicken-custody-battle-california/
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