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 orpingtoneagle  Orpington 24 Oct 16 5.10pm |
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I remember back in the day when the Croydon Advertiser was THE paper for Palce news. Even when I moved away from Croydon I looked forward to Friday and the latest from inside the club. These days it simply regurgitates random stuff from social media and places like these boards often with a negative spin. No news, no effort at news or even basic journalism. Is this just the demise of the local press or just sheer laziness on their part?
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| paperhat croydon 24 Oct 16 5.18pm |
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they have a generic (and i mean EVERY local paper) website which as you say regurgitates nothing and quite often is laden with errors. They are also RAMMED with intrusive advertising which, when you make a comment/complain, is met with a "well we have to do it as nobody buys a newspaper anymore" response. tbh, as sad as it is, I wouldn't even wrap my chips in it now.
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| kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 24 Oct 16 5.35pm |
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Originally posted by paperhat
they have a generic (and i mean EVERY local paper) website which as you say regurgitates nothing and quite often is laden with errors. They are also RAMMED with intrusive advertising which, when you make a comment/complain, is met with a "well we have to do it as nobody buys a newspaper anymore" response. tbh, as sad as it is, I wouldn't even wrap my chips in it now. If you could find a decent chippy!
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| glaziermart 24 Oct 16 6.44pm |
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The FANS VIEW posts are awful. Usually young fans who only seem to know our recent success, therefore like quite a few on this site, jump on every defeat forgetting how well we might have played in the match before and suggesting players should be dropped etc. One of them seems very anti Delaney, and criticises Cabaye a lot.
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| Vaibow vancouver/croydon 25 Oct 16 12.17am |
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During the 90's i used to love reading it on a friday after school - but i think due to social media, us being in the prem and featured in other rags - it loses out.
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| Laths West of Selhurst. 25 Oct 16 12.31am |
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It don't help that it now costs 90p for basically old news .
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antipodeagle  Wellington 25 Oct 16 2.56am |
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Originally posted by orpingtoneagle
I remember back in the day when the Croydon Advertiser was THE paper for Palce news. Even when I moved away from Croydon I looked forward to Friday and the latest from inside the club. These days it simply regurgitates random stuff from social media and places like these boards often with a negative spin. No news, no effort at news or even basic journalism. Is this just the demise of the local press or just sheer laziness on their part? I think what you've just referred to there is the modern media in a nutshell. News reporting now just involves trawling the internet and social media and copying and pasting...usually inaccurately.
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james03  Bangkok 25 Oct 16 8.35am |
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I never lived within areas covered by the Croydon Advertiser when resident in the U.K. However, for over 20 years I had it delivered and could not wait for it to arrive on a Friday. Alas the 'local' paper is a victim of social media and we are the worse for it I fear. Does anyone else remember the Saturday Late Edition of the Evening News? Up to my late teens I would waste so much time on a Saturday evening hanging around waiting for it to go on sale in my then home town of Windsor. It was awful in many regards - the reports were written before games concluded and the league tables were almost always wrong - but it was a thing of beauty!
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| orpingtoneagle Orpington 25 Oct 16 9.37am |
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If memory serves me well the last ever Saturday copy of the Evening News was the weekend before the Burnley game in 79. Probably have a copy knocking about with my copy of 'There and back again,' published by the Adder to celebrate promotion.
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| Penge Eagle Beckenham 25 Oct 16 10.00am |
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It's a shadow of its former glory. Simply awful product these days for many reasons.
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| kenners46 sydenham village 25 Oct 16 10.18am |
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I havent bought a copy for years....also used to love the Saturday evening news used to arrive in my local shop about 6.30 would loiter outside for the van to arrive
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| dougster 25 Oct 16 12.11pm |
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That Mark Ritson is a knob too. Remember him making up lies about Yannick Bolasie and having to apologise? The 'paper' is a joke, much like the 'journo's'.
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