Is this really an article or an advert?

[Clive Walker]

Salon owner gets roasted on the Argus Website for having 'celebrities' come into her salon.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1505...ed_as_TV_names_drop_in_for_beauty_treatments/

 

[Normal Rob]

It's an article. But i bet i can guess where the commissioning editor gets their hair cut.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

happens a lot in local newspapers to be fair

 

[knocky1]

It's an article. But i bet i can guess where the commissioning editor gets their hair cut.

Bet he was disappointed turning up at the salon after his Argus understudy had written a note, in usual Argus typo style, stating there was a free hairy cu*t on offer.

 

[The Albion Roar]

It looks like an advertorial - a paid-for advertisement run in the style of an editorial piece.

Not uncommon in publishing; it will probably look slightly different in the paper to the usual editorial pages.

 

[Normal Rob]

An advertorial would have to state somewhere on the page that the feature had been paid for.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It's a Press Release that the Argus have printed word for word, I would guess.

 

[bhafc99]

It's a Press Release that the Argus have printed word for word, I would guess.

Yup, including the unbelievable grammatical mistakes and all round lack of any writing style.

I know local newspapers are in their death throes, and The Argus is deader than many, but my god this is about as poor as it's possible to get with the written word.

HB&B 'articles' aside, that is.