The mystery of the penis poster man of Lewes Village

[Questions]

When they catch him he should be bloody well hung.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

You see some right cocks around Lewes

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

ha ha, I just saw that, I also got a new follower in the process

another online stalker

 

[Gwylan]

ha ha, I just saw that, I also got a new follower in the process

Why the hell are you protecting your Tweets. You must be the most unlikely candidate for a publicity-shy Twitterer anywhere

 

[Don Quixote]

Not even erect

 

[Mendoza]

Why the hell are you protecting your Tweets. You must be the most unlikely candidate for a publicity-shy Twitterer anywhere

i dont really know how to use it. I only started using it "properly" last week, despite joining a while back. Im doing it all from my phone

 

[hart's shirt]

Maybe he just wanted to tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree?

 

[bhaexpress]

The Argus are following this on Twitter!

Do you think the Argus actually gets any news by themselves ?

 

[Jo Wadsworth]

exclusive ahoy

Hi,

It's not just The Argus who were following it - PA have also picked it up, and beaten us to filing it too - I've put it on The Argus site here (and included a link to this thread):

Hunt launched for Lewes poster flasher From The Argus)

 

[sam86]

Jo -

One Lewes officer worker said the graphic posters have appeared several times over the past fortnight.

Writing on North Stand Chat as Mendoza, he said: "This may not be unusual in Brighton, but for Lewes it will probably mean armageddon."

Happy to help.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Awesome, this will make the tabloids too, except they won't print the word penis, instead it will be "p***s" or "w***y", for fear of offending their delicately minded readers, once they've got past the "t**s" on Page 3.

 

[Jahooli]

Cops in shocks over Xeroxed rocks.
Or something in that vein.

 

[Gwylan]

Do you think the Argus actually gets any news by themselves ?

I think you misunderstand how newspapers work. All local newspapers will have a reporter covering local police stations for anything interesting (and a story about a bloke photographing his penis would certainly be interesting).

There does seem to be this strange notion that Argus reporters hang around NSC waiting to pick up stories. Local newspaper reporters work long hours for little money and certainly don't spend their time surfing the web. As for this particular story, it would certainly have been on the Argus's radar well before it hit NSC.

Of course, it's possible that NSC will break a story - a good journalist will follow any potential source, but it won't happen as often as you think.

If you want to read another opinion of local journalists, read the blog of a former colleague of mine who had to cope with the trauma of his young nephew dying and the attention of the press

My nephew Jamie Bray died. I had to deal with the press | Chris Wheal

 

[Gwylan]

i dont really know how to use it. I only started using it "properly" last week, despite joining a while back. Im doing it all from my phone

You need to unclick "Protect my Tweets" in settings

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

BBC now reporting this story.

BBC News - Penis photo posters seized by police in Lewes

 

[defrocked priest]

Common Danny fess up.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

oh just incase someone says

Hmmm, two small penises. Jedward are releasing a song called 'all the small things? Is there a link? Are Jedward the phantom penis posters?

edit:why's the photo not in the quote?

 

[Jo Wadsworth]

I think you misunderstand how newspapers work. All local newspapers will have a reporter covering local police stations for anything interesting (and a story about a bloke photographing his penis would certainly be interesting).

There does seem to be this strange notion that Argus reporters hang around NSC waiting to pick up stories. Local newspaper reporters work long hours for little money and certainly don't spend their time surfing the web. As for this particular story, it would certainly have been on the Argus's radar well before it hit NSC.

Of course, it's possible that NSC will break a story - a good journalist will follow any potential source, but it won't happen as often as you think.

If you want to read another opinion of local journalists, read the blog of a former colleague of mine who had to cope with the trauma of his young nephew dying and the attention of the press

My nephew Jamie Bray died. I had to deal with the press | Chris Wheal

actually, to be fair, I was alerted to this story on Twitter by someone who linked to this thread. So yes, in this case, we did get the story from NSC (although if you're being *really* pedantic, we got it from PA who got it from NSC before we managed to put the call in - I imagine they will have got it from Twitter too).

Gwylan's right in that we don't spend all our time hanging round NSC, but I do dip in occasionally. Not talking to people on the internet to get stories would be like refusing to use the telephone - madness! And I make sure whenever I know a story has come from another online source that it gets the credit.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Common Danny fess up.

You know if it was me, they certainly wouldn't need to be enlarged.

 

[El Presidente]

Perhaps it is part of the deal to sell Durex to the Yanks today?