[News] The Argus hits rock bottom

Neville's Breakfast said:

What’s the headline Lenny ? As widely described on other threads the Argus website doesn’t work. It is a maze of adverts that I have no wish to open.

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Lenny Rider said:

It’s reporting on the tragic death of a local businesswoman.

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Neville's Breakfast said:

Still a bit cryptic. You are saying something and nothing. No worries I will move on (and still won’t be opening their crap website).

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Lenny Rider said:

Today’s front cover.

Given what that lady and her family have done for this City in employment and charity work over the years, not to mention how many column inches they’ve given the Argus with ‘good news stories’ and advertising revenue over the years, today’s coverage is disgusting.

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Lenny Rider said:

Sorry old boy, I was referring to the actual front cover of the paper version, we had to get it for an Obituary copy to send to a family.

I just posted on here because I was so angry and disgusted.

Rant over

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Lenny Rider said:

Sorry old boy, I was referring to the actual front cover of the paper version, we had to get it for an Obituary copy to send to a family.

I just posted on here because I was so angry and disgusted.

Rant over ��

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CheeseRolls said:

I decided to take a look.

1 The have really cleaned up the website - genuinely surprised and offering an advert free subscription.
2 The Sue Aldis murder trial reporting is not prominent, although it may have been splashed across the paper. It seems they are reporting on the trial, which is not something you can really pretty up.

In summary I haven't seen the paper, but will check the website over the next few days and decide if I want to subscribe. It looks more like a turning point for the Argus to me and nothing like some of the seriously low points they have hit in recent years.

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Lenny Rider said:

Today’s front cover.

Given what that lady and her family have done for this City in employment and charity work over the years, not to mention how many column inches they’ve given the Argus with ‘good news stories’ and advertising revenue over the years, today’s coverage is disgusting.

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Monkey Man said:

As a former local journo I've watched with dismay how once-thriving newspapers have been starved of funds, and staff, and training, and all the rest of it. This is simply down to the arrival of the internet. Back in the 80s, when I started out, local newspapers were the most important way of sharing news and other info. So the advertising revenue was big, the paginations were healthy, and people bought them.

I often feel sorry for local reporters who are described as lazy or badly trained. They work in tiny teams, on terrible pay; there are few if any old heads in the newsroom to learn from (there's often no newsroom at all), and they're expected to generate content that can compete with what the hive mind on social media is generating in real time. And once their job is done, their words are picked apart and ridiculed by some abusive halfwits in the below-the-line comments.

I know this thread isn't specifically about much of this, but I do feel like most local hacks get a pretty raw deal. At least compared to the heyday of the medium that I was lucky enough to be part of.

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Monkey Man said:

As a former local journo I've watched with dismay how once-thriving newspapers have been starved of funds, and staff, and training, and all the rest of it. This is simply down to the arrival of the internet. Back in the 80s, when I started out, local newspapers were the most important way of sharing news and other info. So the advertising revenue was big, the paginations were healthy, and people bought them.

I often feel sorry for local reporters who are described as lazy or badly trained. They work in tiny teams, on terrible pay; there are few if any old heads in the newsroom to learn from (there's often no newsroom at all), and they're expected to generate content that can compete with what the hive mind on social media is generating in real time. And once their job is done, their words are picked apart and ridiculed by some abusive halfwits in the below-the-line comments.

I know this thread isn't specifically about much of this, but I do feel like most local hacks get a pretty raw deal. At least compared to the heyday of the medium that I was lucky enough to be part of.

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zefarelly said:

In the olden days Before NSC took over the world, one purchased the Arsegas at least on Mondays and Thursdays as you had to find out what was going on at the club, who was broken/mended signed/pissed up the pink coconut etc.

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