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[News] Argus
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blue'n'white
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If you download "Brighton News 365" you can still read articles - lots of annoying ads but still . . .
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,586
The Argus is not charging to read articles.
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
- 5,964
This is quite an interesting thread.
Not Andy Naylor
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Mind you, this is an absolute classic, even by Argus standards. In other news, Pope Catholic shock.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18375622.queues-ravens-bakery-buns-even-longer-due-distancing/
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18375622.queues-ravens-bakery-buns-even-longer-due-distancing/
I must be special then because I can read the articles without paying.
Every conceivable type of ad, the slightest wrong click and you trigger one of their tedious popups, videos or nosey lifestyle surveys.
In the last throes of its life, desperate for any ad income.
Hu_Camus
New member
- Jan 27, 2019
- 502
It has been for years now, and there will be many adults here, practically middle who, will have no idea just how huge, indeed powerful, this paper was in B&H.
They were selling 100,000 hard copies a day in the early 80’s.
Now most online articles are blatant clickbait to draw in dozens of lefties and their counterparts in a slanging match.
phoenix
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- May 18, 2009
- 2,605
All ok here, I believe they make most of their money by "clickbait".
So that would be shot down straight away.
crookie
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I remember as a teenager, living in Crowborough, we could go to the game, get the bus back to Churchill Square and pick up a copy with a match report to read on the 729 bus home, pretty impressive !!
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,586
Quite the opposite. The comment section has a clear majority of warped provincials.
nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
- 1,925
there used to be 3 editions, morning, afternoon and a late extra! and saturday reults edition. it used to be a great local paper with some really good journalists. now its just click bait and ads, no proper journalists. Most of the reports read like they are written by a 15 year old in a remedial English class.
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
Sadly it's just the way things have gone for local papers everywhere. The internet robbed them of ad revenue that paid for the decent journalism. Social media took away their ability to break local news.
It's very easy to slag off the Argus or any other provincial paper. The truth is they don't have the resources to do what they did 20 or 30 years ago.
It's very easy to slag off the Argus or any other provincial paper. The truth is they don't have the resources to do what they did 20 or 30 years ago.
The Night Final. My Dad used to buy it after yet another Albion win at the Goldstone, on our way home.
Boroseagull
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Indeed it was and in days earlier to that under its original name 'The Evening Argus'.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,586
i used to love reading the results in the night final. Especially as, for whatever reason, they put the half time scores beneath each result.
I remember i used to copy the results out as I was learning handwriting. There was one result I remember, a 1-0 victory over Halifax. My mum had just bought me a new exercise book so I set about copying them out. I tracked down the date recently and I would have been 6 at the time. The Argus of yesteryear invokes a catalyst for many a happy memory. Today, quite the opposite.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,894
two or three print runs a day too