Bloody Good Friday For Journalists
IN the Forums: Good Friday used to be one of the two days a year taken as traditional holiday for printers and consequently journalists. The trades were symbiotic. The other day off was Christmas Day.
Not so now, I wouldn’t know where to look for a National Graphical Association compositor these days, but Good Friday remains a crushingly dull news day. I have never worked for Darlington’s Northern Echo but have admired it since Harold Evan’s days there as editor. As good an example of a provincial morning newspaper and as fine a training ground for journalists compared to anywhere in the world.
But Bloody Good Friday? It always shows the weaknesses up.(that’s an in-joke never finish a sentence with a proposition – second in-joke)
It is such a dead news day. Nothing happens on Thursday because the masses are jetting off to parts foreign or just getting the coal in to shut the doors against the last blast of winter hurtling in from the Arctic.
This one appears in the Echo today:
POLICE fear a pyromaniac may be responsible for a spate of arson incidents in a County Durham town.
Since January there have been seven deliberate fires in the Park Road area of Consett.
The latest incident was yesterday when a greenhouse was torched and the flames spread to the house, scorching the window – AGW
Posted: 21st, March 2008 | In: Reviews Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
