Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
The DT/DET/Derbyshire Live shower has for a long time had no original thought, what they've now resorted to is basing 'articles' on the twitter comments of readers and THEN basing follow on 'articles' on the comments made by readers on the first article...
Regrettably local journalism has declined to the point where its virtually non existent, Reach (also known as retch!) have taken over most regional papers and it seems there is little reporting, much trawling of the tinternet and reproducing rubbish thats on there.

Sadly the BBC seem to be going down the same road, centralising regional news and I fear we shall be all the poorer. Much media these days seems to be Op Eds written by people being controversial for the sake of it, the likes of Liddle, Clarkson et al make money from just writing any old **** that comes into their heads, I'm pretty sure they don't believe half of what they write.

But of course our current (if only for a short while!) PM was a master of this type of journalism, writing utter bull**** and lies. Amazed he actually got sacked twice for lying, when most of the stuff he wrote had no factual basis. Just for balance some of the stuff written in the Grauniad beggars belief, again just opinion and pap with little factual basis - Adrian Chiles writes a column and jeez its pointless drivel which I no longer bother reading.