He doesn't post too often but he provides valuable insights into the media.
Today is no exception and he reminds us that looking back through rose tinted spectacles is not always the best thing to do as he looks back 50 years to the 1958 edition of his local newspaper
What struck me as the old microfilm image came up on the records office screen was that the Aglian is now providing more local news than it was. First there was the size: eight pages broadsheet then and 48 tabloid now (Mondays).
That is a tripling of the area of newsprint to be filled. Granted pictures and much much bigger headlines fill much of that extra space. Yet the paper clearly provides a larger volume of local news now than it did in 1958.
So there for all the critics of the current local scene.
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