Jeffrey Shaw Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Several overlapping threads on this topic have been merged here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenewilde Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 What, the rats? ??????????????? No, the binmen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenewilde Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 A brilliant sentence from Emma Hollingworth's column in Thursday's Star. She writes utter bilge week after week, sometimes I have a look to see if there's any shred of sense in what's she's written but I haven't seen any yet. This is a cracker: "Her sister-in-law had a similar tale to tell - as the oldest girl she was forced to quit school to look after my grandpa after their mother died when he was only 7 and she was 14." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hales111 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Do you work for them by any chance? No I don't why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hales111 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Even in text speak people don't usually put a full stop and a capital letter in the middle of a sentence! There's no need for insults against me. You need to grow up sweetheart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryJMitchel Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I'm just wondering what your views on The Sheffield Star are? I've emailed their editor today and asked him why they recently seem to be the last to report on local news & that you can get your local news quicker from the BBC, social networks and forums. This was his reply. 'I think that’s unfair. There will be times when the BBC will publish some things before us, it depends on when news breaks and what time of day. But if you go through the hundreds of stories that we publish that do not appear anywhere else every week, then I think you will agree we are pretty good at bringing people the news first. As for social networking sites and forums, we too publish on social networking sites, our own. We don’t have exclusivity on all news stories or breaking stories and the way the world is now there are far more opportunities for people to publicise events and news breaks than ever there has been. However, what you don’t get is professional journalists finding out and publishing stories that don’t appear anywhere else except for in The Star – which happens on a daily basis. I am sure you can provide me with examples of where we publish some stories after the BBC, but I am sure I would be able to provide you with many, many more stories that either you only get in The Star or we publish first. I hope that puts into context your concerns about us. I am happy to discuss this with you further. Kind regards Jeremy Clifford Editor The Star' What are your views on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryRiley Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 He has a strange definition of 'Professional Journalists'. Most of his don't even seem to be able to spell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Lasers Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 For the main paper of a major city, it's concerningly poor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Overall Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I can remember nearly 20 yrs ago the Star crucifying Supertram. It doesn't seem to have done too bad since...(ST I mean )..) When I was reading all the spite regarding ST from the Star, I used to wonder why!.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangerthe6 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 It depends on your definition of a story. They certainly were the first ( and only? ) to publish the story of the man moaning about the bin men waking him up. I can't imagine any other paper would be remotely interested in it. I can't think any readers would be either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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