The MEN writing a gushing, completely uncritical article about New East Manchester, that makes a change!
Come marvel at the all the wonderful new houses, transport links and jobs they've created! Aren't they so fucking brilliant. I wish I was on the board of New East Manchester, so I could be so awesome, and maybe get some help setting up my £5m posh restaurant, so all my fellow board members could have a jolly and chat about how fantastic it is that we've built all these wonderful new houses and bestowed our wondrous talents on the good people of East Manchester.
HAPPY DAY!
Comments (2)
You could have written that about Stoke. Is it mandatory for local papers to bang on about 'regeneration' and 'job creation' at least every other day?
Posted by a very public sociologist | June 20, 2008 9:20 PM
Posted on June 20, 2008 21:20
in fairness to them, my brother works for a local paper owned by a national media company and the amount of actual journalism they have the opportunity to do is fairly miniscule. They're dependent on re-writing press releases from local government and local businesses for their local news, and wire reports for national/international. So, they crank out this rubbish, part out of dependence, part out of inadequacy and part out of editorial policy (always talk your city up appears to be a rule of local journalism)
Posted by jack r | June 21, 2008 3:14 PM
Posted on June 21, 2008 15:14