Bury deserves better than this
My first job was on the Bury Times.
I collected the union subs so I know we had 25 journalists - based in Bury and a distrit office in Radcliffe.
Now the paper's American owners Newsquest have cut things back so that there is just one reporter a week rota-ed to work in the Bury office.
Bury Council is to debate the cuts backs.
The National Union of Journalists has already condemned the move.
Bury has two MPs and its own council, spending hundreds of millions of pounds of public money.
In future how will politicians be held to account? And how will people be informed enough to participate in civil society?
posted by Action @ 09:13
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Simple answer, they won't. Unless other means are found. In Stoke we have the glorious Sentinel, which prints the most mildly critical of articles on local politics. That said it's enough to send the local establishment into fits.
And then there is a local politics blog called PitsnPots. Its audience is far smaller than the local rag's, but, bizarrely, local councillors seem to care more about their portrayal on there. Strange. So if there's nothing like that in Bury, it might well be worth setting one up.
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