A Newspaper with Less News..., What's happening with the Newbury Weekly News? Options

[user23]

I was pretty disappointed with last week's edition.. a vast pullout section with a stack of photos on school leavers and their prom season; this is of supreme indifference and is not news.

I also note that last week, there was a mere single page of letters. The letters pages (and there were three pages of such not long ago) are one of the best sections of the newspaper.

I find there is less and less worth reading in this newspaper and yet the price escalates. I find the newspaper is increasingly heavy on photos and much lighter on text. The prom section is a classic example...what a waste of money.

This was a great paper a decade ago and less. Is there a new editor in charge?

The quality of the Newbury Weekly News and its news content seems to go from bad to worse.

I doubt the prom section was a waste of money.

I bet almost everyone in it bought at least one copy as a souvenir.

[dannyboy]

To be fair it is a lot easier to fill a newspaper with photos than stories/ news.

To be fair, some stories are better told pictorially.

I can't imagine the paper covering 'Prom Night 2012' in prose alone......

[Newbelly]

I doubt the prom section was a waste of money.

I bet almost everyone in it bought at least one copy as a souvenir.

You are probably right.

Scaling things up a bit, whilst I in no way condone illegal practices such as hacking phones or computers, I just hope, post Leveson, we do not lose the spirit of investigative journalism.

[GMR]

To be fair, some stories are better told pictorially.

I can't imagine the paper covering 'Prom Night 2012' in prose alone......

True.

[Andy Capp]

You are probably right. Scaling things up a bit, whilst I in no way condone illegal practices such as hacking phones or computers, I just hope, post Leveson, we do not lose the spirit of investigative journalism.

I see nothing wrong with hacking, if it is used to expose serious wrong doing, but it should never hinder police work.

[Timbo]

Seriously, I know I get accused of trolling but you do post some complete dribble.

His dribble is by far the most interesting dribble I have ever read.

Penelope, the end of School Discos, you know, I think they had those up until about 2005!

[Strafin]

Even if I did, I can take my own photos.

The paper never used to run this dross.

It is rubbish, the prom bit. If you get you picture in the paper fair enough, but if everyone has their picture in the paper, and the pictures are being sold, it's not really exciting is it?

[Biker1]

I doubt the prom section was a waste of money.

I bet almost everyone in it bought at least one copy as a souvenir.

Looking the way some of them did in those pictures I bet some didn't.
At least they are too young to have "tats" yet!
Gave me and Mrs. Biker a good laugh though.

[Blake]

What I found after I had put the prom section and property pages in the recycling bin was a rather thin "newspaper".

[JeffG]

When I left school we didn't even have discos.

[Jayjay]

Do not understand the present for the teacher at end of term. Bottles of £70 perfum and expensive champagne? When did that become the norm, and why?

[HJD]

Do not understand the present for the teacher at end of term. Bottles of £70 perfum and expensive champagne? When did that become the norm, and why?

Probably when Miss changed from a 60 yr. old Witch wielding a cane to a tasty 25 yr. old in a mini skirt.

[On the edge]

Probably when Miss changed from a 60 yr. old Witch wielding a cane to a tasty 25 yr. old in a mini skirt.

Suspect these days the former could collect even more in certain parts of London....that's real market forces for you!

[Blake]

Keep it relevant.

Does anyone else know why the newspaper has gone downhill in recent years?

[JeffG]

Does anyone else know why the newspaper has gone downhill in recent years?

You would be good at designing questions for referendums.

[Andy Capp]

Keep it relevant.

Does anyone else know why the newspaper has gone downhill in recent years?

I don't think it has gone down hill, but I am disappointed by the letters page compared to the past. I would imagine newspapers are under great pressure from other media outlets, depressed housing market, and a drop in advertising revue in general, not to mention a loss from people only using the paper's website and not buying a paper.

[Penelope]

I don't think it has gone down hill, but I am disappointed by the letters page compared to the past. I would imagine newspapers are under great pressure from other media outlets, depressed housing market, and a drop in advertising revue in general, not to mention a loss from people only using the paper's website and not buying a paper.

I must confess I usually read the digital version myself.

[lordtup]

Yet another import from the USA (sigh) why? something else to drain poor daddy's wallet, yet another 'must have' from the land of the obese burger munchers.

Hear Hear !!

[Nothing Much]

To answer an earlier post about what are you on about?
LSD was dead simple.
To the left as I type is an old school board that details scholars, Praeposters.
It was in a skip and a friend of my brother retrieved it along with all the others.
Yes I am there. 7 times over the years. Sports mostly. (CJE)
The guy who cooked up the LSD He ended up at Cambridge.
He was from an old car making family. Frazer-Nash.It wasn't just him.About 5 others were sent home.

I ended up in a travelling show.Well I spent 4 years touring shows with others.
It was quite good times really.(That is enough about that)

Nothing to do with Newbury I accept.
But it was my home town then.As Bruce might have said
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[Biker1]

I must confess I usually read the digital version myself.

But then you miss a whole enthralling page weekly of "Country Matters" or as it should be titled "Farming Propaganda"!