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garinda · 07-07-2007, 17:33

I can just about cope with two pages of photographs of people's birthdays/christenings/engagement parties in the Accrington Observer, but this week we had seven pages of children's first communions. Next week we can look forward to all the school prom photographs.

I'm sure it's very nice for the friends and families of the children pictured, but I'm sure 95% of the paper's readers aren't a bit interested, and don't even look, but skip over them.

I was looking through an old copy of the Observer from the late seventies the other day, in it's pre-tabloid format, and the difference was staggering. No filler pages of photographs, and tons more good old fashioned reporting.

Am I being a miserable sod, or does the amount of photographs in the Observer irk you too?

07-07-2007, 17:33	#1
garinda Give, give, give member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Overlookin' ducks & geese Posts: 32,411 Blog Entries: 293 Liked: 27 times Rep Power: 16469	Accrington Observer photo spreads. I can just about cope with two pages of photographs of people's birthdays/christenings/engagement parties in the Accrington Observer, but this week we had seven pages of children's first communions. Next week we can look forward to all the school prom photographs. I'm sure it's very nice for the friends and families of the children pictured, but I'm sure 95% of the paper's readers aren't a bit interested, and don't even look, but skip over them. I was looking through an old copy of the Observer from the late seventies the other day, in it's pre-tabloid format, and the difference was staggering. No filler pages of photographs, and tons more good old fashioned reporting. Am I being a miserable sod, or does the amount of photographs in the Observer irk you too? __________________ 'If you're going to be a Kant, be the very best Kant there is my son.' Johann Georg Kant, father of Immanuel Kant, philosopher.