Evening Argus Protest

[levirocks]

Does anyone know what the protest is about outside the Evening Argus?

Apart from poor Journalism?

 

[severnside gull]

the staff protesting about the drivel the paper produces?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Brighton Argus action

 

[tonymgc]

If its about Andy Naylor we should turn up en masse with pitchforks & burning torches

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Does anyone know what the protest is about outside the Evening Argus?

Apart from poor Journalism?

The fact that most of the Brighton employees are being made redundant and their roles being shipped to Southampton. You think it's a poor rag now - wait until there's no local reporters to follow stories - it will be just like South Today or Meridian.

 

[Gwylan]

Do you think HB&B is going to be joining his colleagues on the picket line at some point?


Good luck to them BTW, how can a "local newspaper" be produced 80 miles away in Southampton? It's not even in the next county let alone the same one. It would be like having a local TV station based in Southampton.

Oh wait ....

 

[levirocks]

Thanks.

I knew you ladies and gents would know!

 

[Gwylan]

Blimey, even the Tories are supporting this action

Brighton Argus action: Support from Mary Mears, Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council

Brighton Argus action: Support from Mike Weatherley MP

 

[Vicar!]

Now American owned apparantly, chief exec getting paid £600,000 a year. Effectively being closed down and moved to Southampton. Local staff being fired, or move to Southampton. No pay rises for three years. We are losing our local rag guys!

 

[Icy Gull]

So our match reports will come from some Saints/Pompey/Bournemouth/Reading/Oxford journalist fan in Southampton? Can't wait.

 

[Easy 10]

You'll be DREAMING of the days you could incessantly slag off Naylor.

We'll be lucky to get 50 words every 4 days now.

 

[Icy Gull]

We'll be lucky to get 50 words every 4 days now.

Even if we top the table and get to Wembley for a cup final.

 

[Tooting Gull]

You'll be DREAMING of the days you could incessantly slag off Naylor.

We'll be lucky to get 50 words every 4 days now.

Just below the Eastleigh match report.

 

[Mr Banana]

Get behind them, this has gone on for two long. Sacking four out of six subs is ridiculous and they're all ace ace ace people/journos

 

[Martinf]

I don't think it's the reporters being shipped to Southampton - it's the sub editors isn't it? However, even if it's only the subs, this is a bad move and another nail in the Argus coffin.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Americans run their companies according to the bottom line and this is unexpected.

Every local person who buys the Argus regularly has a right to complain.

But are we sure that the NUJ isn't making things worse?

They do look like one of those up-their-own-bottoms prehistoric unions that refuse to accept reality, like those car industry unions that fought dreadful management in the 60s and 70s by behaving equally badly. Look where the British-owned car industry is now. (The answer is "Malvern".)

I used to work for Royal Mail where hopeless management treated postmen like children and the postmen responded by behaving like children. It takes two to tangle.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

If more people bought the paper then they would be able to afford to keep the staff on.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Americans run their companies according to the bottom line and this is unexpected.

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I have and do work for american companies and that statement is a very broad and in my experience inaccurate statement.

Its not all about bottom line, it tends to be about efficiency and they are not afraid to splash cash if it leads to better procedures etc...yes that in turn works through to bottom line, bUT one of the real +'s of an American company I have come accross is staff benefits.

Doesnt help our friends at the Argus though

 

[ROSM]

The paper has had the guts ripped out of it over the last few years. they've lost extremely good, knowledgable local journos like Phil Mills (crime reporter who had tremendous relationships with the local emergency services), Paul Holden who knows Worthing inside out and is now back at the Worthing Herald. They've replaced them with juniors and interns who work hard and mean well but dont have the local knowledge to construct many stories or to pull in stories via contacts on a slow news day.

The subs are the backstop - who should be able to ensure errors dont make it into the paper (like calling somewhere 'wooding dean') and ensure that you dont see the same story in the paper twice - noth of which have happened this week due to lack of resource. Moving them to 'hubs of subs' will mean that local knowledge is gone forever with no path to develop new blood.

Just 12 years ago there were 6 editions a day across the county. Now there's one.

 

[Dave the OAP]

The subs are the backstop - who should be able to ensure errors dont make it into the paper (like calling somewhere 'wooding dean') and ensure that you dont see the same story in the paper twice - noth of which have happened this week due to lack of resource. .

or proof reading incomprehensible drivel masquerading as "blogs"?