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The Demise of The Brighton Argus
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jevs
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Biggest heap of festering horseshit i've ever known. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Commuters all read the garbage freebie Metro in the morning and the quality freebie Standard in the evening. And all Albion fans under the age of about eighty read the freebie Argus online. Paid-for paper papers must have had their day shirley?
GT49er
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Used to love reading the Argus whenever I went home to visit Mum and Dad in Worthing - the Saturday evening edition (brilliant that the got it out so quickly, wasn't it?), especially if I'd nipped along to the Goldstone for the match, and the Monday Albion Analysis. Big fan of JV too - he was my link to Albion matters when I was hundreds of miles away (and no internet!)
Yes, it has gone downhill a lot, IMHO - but let's not be too hard on the Argus. The same can be said for pretty much any local newspaper, all the ones that I've ever regularly used in the past, anyway; even the nationals have more claptrap than news in them these days.
Yes, it has gone downhill a lot, IMHO - but let's not be too hard on the Argus. The same can be said for pretty much any local newspaper, all the ones that I've ever regularly used in the past, anyway; even the nationals have more claptrap than news in them these days.
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Agreed, and don't...
Codner's Wallop
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- Sep 11, 2013
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The bus crash non-splash was an odd decision, for sure. But yes the online coverage was strong.
Overall, the hard copy news coverage is no better or worse than most regional dailies.
My biggest complaint is the sports coverage, which in my view, is poor. It has noticeably gone downhill over the past two or three months (journos on hols?).
Overall, the hard copy news coverage is no better or worse than most regional dailies.
My biggest complaint is the sports coverage, which in my view, is poor. It has noticeably gone downhill over the past two or three months (journos on hols?).
Apologies. Did not recognise the name as an Argus reporter. Thought he was from an agency.
Someone on the Argus website comments section posts under the name ' Vegas Seagull '
Is that you?
Freddie Goodwin.
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It is a sad demise for a Sussex Institution that lost it's way. Look at the local papers around lewes, Wothing, Eastbourne ot the Brighton Independent, they have a lively mix of really LOCAL news by local reporters
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Well, 24 hours later and the opportunity to update us all has arrived......but the Argus management have obviously decided that 'close, stabledoor, horse and bolted' are the relevant words.
The story takes about one third of the front page, but most of that is headline, and then takes about two thirds of page 6. So the main route in a bus reliant town being closed for hours on end, multiple injuries including life threatening ones, 'major incident' declared by the emergency services, local people angle, major local employer being questioned about its' sickness policy, not too mention the coverage given by the national media leads to our 'local' newspaper offering us just about 2 pages of coverage after nearly 48 hours since the incident.
Cheerio Argus
The story takes about one third of the front page, but most of that is headline, and then takes about two thirds of page 6. So the main route in a bus reliant town being closed for hours on end, multiple injuries including life threatening ones, 'major incident' declared by the emergency services, local people angle, major local employer being questioned about its' sickness policy, not too mention the coverage given by the national media leads to our 'local' newspaper offering us just about 2 pages of coverage after nearly 48 hours since the incident.
Cheerio Argus
From today's Argus......
daveinprague
New member
On a a less sombre news story. How could the headline be so wrong?
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1362...erkat_tattoo_in_tribute_to_furry_friend_Scar/
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1362...erkat_tattoo_in_tribute_to_furry_friend_Scar/
AlastairWatts
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He didn't like criticism though: very often the game that I'd seen didn't seem to be the game he reported. I wrote to him once or twice pointing out these differences and (to be fair) received prompt and objective replies.
As for The Argus, surely it's almost a classic in business mismanagement? Originally pre-emptive in advertising - especially with classified ads for cars, homes and jobs - they sat back and counted their money whilst competitors arrived and took different areas away. Their reaction was to make economies in their news staff, thus reducing that coverage as well. In the end they lost out on both advertising and news coverage, so made further economies and so on. These days it seems to be reliant upon news agency reports and a couple of people locally. Whatever happened to the campaigning newspapers we once knew?
dejavuatbtn
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The on line Argus is a joke.
It failed to publish 3 weeks worth of its magazine.
One day last week a whole page of the paper was printed in gobbledegook text.
Saturday's version had the first 3 pages from Friday.
It is constantly putting either the wrong photos in, or cropping them poorly to make them irrelevant.
The standard of spelling and grammar is just atrocious.
Like others of my generation, I find it useful to keep in touch with local news and deaths!, but it is really testing my patience. Ot's as if they just don't care about quality any more.
It failed to publish 3 weeks worth of its magazine.
One day last week a whole page of the paper was printed in gobbledegook text.
Saturday's version had the first 3 pages from Friday.
It is constantly putting either the wrong photos in, or cropping them poorly to make them irrelevant.
The standard of spelling and grammar is just atrocious.
Like others of my generation, I find it useful to keep in touch with local news and deaths!, but it is really testing my patience. Ot's as if they just don't care about quality any more.
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
The staff are very talented, dedicated and generally wonderful, it's just they're each trying to do the work of ten people. It's the equivalent of two people trying to run NSC.
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It's beautiful click bait for the desperate and frustrated souls who make up an alarming percentage of its comments section.
Virtually every story I have seen that involves a situation or people I know has had inaccuracies.
Many years ago I was subject of an assault in Brighton that made their pages. The reporting on that occasion was well constructed and the reporter took time to listen to my own thoughts on the matter. Said reporter has unsurprisingly moved on to better things.
I don't know if anyone saw or remembers the story they had a few months back on the headteacher who was signed off work because she "slipped on a taco" (great exclusive there Argus)? As well as being a nasty, small minded piece of journalism that didn't have the courage to say what it meant it contained two stone cold factual inaccuracies. I know because it was my son's head teacher.
Cant be long until they go out of business? Naylor certainly timed his departure timing well.