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Originally Posted by garinda
Before your time, but it was once a truly great local newspaper. Especially when it was a broadsheet.
Today's feeble facsimile doesn't even compare to the old Midweek Accrington Observer.
Printed news has changed.
People want information instantaneously, and for free.
Sad, but not much can be done about it.
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I agree wholeheartedly G. think its taken a nose dive even more since Mervyn left, he was always very fair, and very even handed politically although he certainly didn't have the same views as myself, a lot of the former reporters were ace and actually took the trouble to get off there backsides and go out into the community and didn't just sit on the end of a telephone to get there stories