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Les Brechin
September 21, 2021, 4:29pm

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I'm amazed it hasn't gone down to a weekly publication yet, like the Scunny Telegraph did quite a while ago.


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It's a shame really, it should be a real positive that we do have a printed daily in the area, many places don't. If only it truly was local and was somewhere like the quality that it was years back...
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Quoted from Les Brechin
I'm amazed it hasn't gone down to a weekly publication yet, like the Scunny Telegraph did quite a while ago.


And the Echo.


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Quoted from Les Brechin
I'm amazed it hasn't gone down to a weekly publication yet, like the Scunny Telegraph did quite a while ago.


They did that because the number of Scunts who could read didn't justify a daily paper.


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September 21, 2021, 4:47pm

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And the Echo.


Echo

Echo

Echo.


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I jokingly remarked  'I don't know whether to spend it watching porn or watching football'
'you may as well spend it watching porn' she replied
That's understanding darling what makes you say that? I asked

She said 'Well you already know how to play football'  
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To some extent they are a master of their own downfall due to a lack of local quality driven by a lack of investment but at the same time, trends have changed.

We consume media through our phones, tablets and computers now which is monetised completely different.

That said, recent articles generate clicks which is what they need.
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When Reach bought the Grimsby Telegraph it became obvious that it was a tool to sell advertising, national and local. The content was immaterial to profit which is why we lost the local editorial team and reporters.

Unfortunately for the youth growing up, they will not know what a great newspaper we had, I remember the Saturday sports edition. I believe there were 3 local editions plus coastal editions and 1 for the villages.

Whether you liked Geoff Ford or the late Charles Eckberg they gave a true report of the happening at BP, and not words to fill a page. I would like to think that there is only one place left for the once great GT but hygiene laws have stopped it.

Fish and Chip paper, but then again the quality of the newspaper its self has gone downhill!


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A proof reader is what is needed !

Spelling and grammar errors abound !!


The writing is shocking. It looks like it's been written by secondary school kids.  There's a massive overuse  of certain words.  "Tragic" comes to mind.
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It's gone completely downhill since it became part of the Mirror Group. It's full of misleading sensationalist headlines, frequent spelling mistakes, very poor grammar and virtually non-existent proof reading. In fact very much like The Daily Mirror.


I think it's gone to a sort of publication that Dave Gorman highlighted.  They just use templates.  He showed a story in one part of the country and then pointed out a story in another part of the country. They just change the details.  
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Doesn’t matter if it’s the LA Times or the Grimsby Telegraph print media is on it’s last legs. We live in an instant world, Twitter, Facebook, 24 hour rolling news. 20 years ago seeing ‘breaking news’ on the tv meant a major catastrophe was unfurling, now it happens 10 times a day and was on Twitter 20 minutes before.

In the past the papers where the only way businesses and organisations could promote and publish their views now clubs like Grimsby can publish directly through YouTube and the papers can only really give an opinion on what happened yesterday.


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