I’ve been reading lots of my local newspaper today as part of our press monitoring process, and it seems to have been a slow week for news.
As I was getting into it, I was highlighting non-stories in the political field to my colleague in the Lib Dem office this afternoon.
Some of the stories included “X Party delivers leaflets – campaigners for B MP in the Y constituency say they will deliver 40,000 leaflets in the coming months. This comes after many local people have received information from the Y party’s new PPC.”
Erm wow. Delivering leaflets is news now?
It continued with other stories in similar veins – little snippets of politico’s daily lives in the paper, and we regaled each other with articles.
Then we went home. About 10pm, I got a call from my colleague who had just picked up today’s paper, and had to share a story he found, under the headline “Chat to councillor” – Cllr C will be holding a surgery in a library at $day, $time. Cllr D will not be a holding a surgery in January.
Hold the front page.
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Although details of how you can talk to your local councillor are useful things to have in a local paper, even if they don’t strictly qualify as news.
Yes, that’s true. I’m sure we like to think of ourselves as people who are easy to contact, but republishing our contact details and how to contact us can only be helpful.