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Post by Ryanairflyer on Jul 20, 2020 13:26:47 GMT 1
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Post by vanguard on Jul 20, 2020 14:05:12 GMT 1
Thats what i call great journalism!!
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Post by LPL on Jul 20, 2020 16:42:30 GMT 1
It's not there now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2020 17:13:21 GMT 1
In the days of proper journalism, the Echo used to have a reporter called Roy Corlett, known to quite a few of us, on both a personal and professional level. He would hang around the airport from time to time and several of us had his phone number, to call if anything interesting happened. I well remember him spending a Saturday night with us in the days of the newspaper flights, and producing a very entertaining article for the Echo some days later. He was knowledgeable about aircraft and what he didn't know about, he'd ask. For the most part, his reporting was objective and accurate and because of this everyone at the airport who knew him co-operated with him. I'm back in the 1960/70s now, and if I remember rightly, Roy moved on to another paper and was never replaced. Of course newspapers won't pay for aviation correspondents as such nowadays, so the job is handed on to whoever isn't busy at the time, with predictable results. Whenever I read the rubbish related to aviation in the dailies these days (which is not very often), I can't help wondering how accurate their reporting is on other subjects, which is why I have largely given up on them.
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Post by glynmon on Jul 26, 2020 15:33:31 GMT 1
Hi Garstonboy, You are quite right. Roy was a great journalist. I started work as a journalist for the BBC in 1978 and Roy was then programme organiser at BBC Radio Merseyside and then moved to become manager at the newly opened BBC Radio Devon. He was that station's first manager. He is retired now and I am pretty sure he now lives in Southport. Sadly the Echo, like so many other papers, has had the staff decimated so there are few people there, all rushing around trying to bring the paper out. Reach - was Trinity Mirror - has also created a series of clones all around the country. The Echo looks like the Manchester Evening News, which looks like the Birmingham Mail and so on. It's a real tragedy that newspapers of record, like the Echo and the late lamented Daily Post, rarely cover court cases other than major trials, the local councils are never called into question and, in the Echo's case, if it's not crime, it's not on the front page. I've been following the comments on here about easyJet planes "doing loops" over Liverpool, for instance, which is just laughable, though tragic for local journalism. The story about the drop-off charges at LJLA was covered, of course, but I don't recall seeing anything which said that these charges exist at other airports, too. The lack of fact-checking is unforgivable. A misleading story recently concerned Next, where the Echo bewailed that it was closing its store on Church Street. What they didn't say was that they are moving in to the vacant Forever 21 store. As for the comments written at the end of the stories, they beggar belief as the spelling and grammar are quite appalling and some of them are downright offensive. It's the omissions/lack of balance and a lack of checking facts which makes many of us wish the likes of Roy Corlett still worked on the Echo.
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Post by oafy on Jul 28, 2020 12:57:22 GMT 1
I too worked with Roy but if he was at the Echo today he’d be like everyone else - too few reporters asked to do far too much so it’s inevitable mistakes will happen. And they have just announced more redundancies so things will only get worse. When the likes of Roy were starting out he was a district reporter in south Liverpool and was given time to make contacts, meet people and get about the patch. Doesn’t happen today. Plus, he had time to report. Today reporters at the Echo are expected to report in all formats, Twitter, Video etc which adds to demands of the job. It’s all about click bait nowadays and its crime, celebrity and sport which sells..And they don’t have specialists any more save for politics, crime, Crown Court reporters and sport. An excellent business reporter Neil Hodgson who wrote many airport stories - always accurate and insightful- was let go and not replaced. I know there isn’t much sympathy on this site for the Echo or it’s reporters but on behalf of the latter, it’s a dwindling band trying to do their best with the hand they are given. And if a young reporter with no knowledge of aviation or aircraft gets a phone call from a resident in south Liverpool about a jet doing loops....well you know what will happen!
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