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......Mick Beard, from the Hastings Observer.
http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2004/12dec/041223ed.shtml
He's apparently a traditionalist in journalistic terms, so get ready for all the parish-pump, cat-up-a-tree stuff to make a big comeback.
Alas, the owners of the Argus lost faith in the recent efforts to modernise and turn it into a middle-market, populist yet intelligent read.
All the grannies who read the Argus didn't want to know, the younger readership it was aimed at won't buy newspapers, the sales fell and so that was the end of Simon Bradshaw's brave experiment.
It's an awful outcome really for local newspaper journalists and it's hard to see any other future for the Argus now than a prolonged and steady decline and eventual death as the grannies it will now chase gradually die off themselves.
The owners of the Argus, Newsquest and their American owners Gannett, really are a bunch of short-sighted, money-grubbing ***** with not an ounce of journalistic integrity.
If you think the Argus is currently poor when compared to national newspapers, just wait until you see it a year from now.
I really wonder how long we'll see the Sports Argus survive, a fairly obvious target for the Newsquest accountants you'd think.
A great shame
.......but in the interests of balance, of course some people will be happy.
http://forums.thisismidsussex.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2144
http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2004/12dec/041223ed.shtml
He's apparently a traditionalist in journalistic terms, so get ready for all the parish-pump, cat-up-a-tree stuff to make a big comeback.
Alas, the owners of the Argus lost faith in the recent efforts to modernise and turn it into a middle-market, populist yet intelligent read.
All the grannies who read the Argus didn't want to know, the younger readership it was aimed at won't buy newspapers, the sales fell and so that was the end of Simon Bradshaw's brave experiment.
It's an awful outcome really for local newspaper journalists and it's hard to see any other future for the Argus now than a prolonged and steady decline and eventual death as the grannies it will now chase gradually die off themselves.
The owners of the Argus, Newsquest and their American owners Gannett, really are a bunch of short-sighted, money-grubbing ***** with not an ounce of journalistic integrity.
If you think the Argus is currently poor when compared to national newspapers, just wait until you see it a year from now.
I really wonder how long we'll see the Sports Argus survive, a fairly obvious target for the Newsquest accountants you'd think.
A great shame
.......but in the interests of balance, of course some people will be happy.
http://forums.thisismidsussex.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2144
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