Marina's Rolls Royce Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 Congratulations to Bristol Live who are running the same headline page for the fourth day in a row. 'Live' being subjective in the case of Bristol Live It appears that a transfer target who is no longer a transfer target is the biggest news event in over a year. I hadn't realised that this player (whose name I have already genuinely forgotten) was so incredibly important . Is this the end of the football world as we know it or has the entire BL staff gone on strike/holiday or simply can't think of a single alternative thing to write about? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 11 minutes ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: Congratulations to Bristol Live who are running the same headline page for the fourth day in a row. 'Live' being subjective in the case of Bristol Live It appears that a transfer target who is no longer a transfer target is the biggest news event in over a year. I hadn't realised that this player (whose name I have already genuinely forgotten) was so incredibly important . Is this the end of the football world as we know it or has the entire BL staff gone on strike/holiday or simply can't think of a single alternative thing to write about? Yep. Last updated on 12th August. Seems like if Piercy is on his hols there's no one to take over. Bit tinpot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Male Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 I could not agree more it really is very poor and quite laughable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 (edited) That's local media these days, it's kinda fecked in many areas. About the clicks, decline of decent local media is inevitable but depressing. Edited August 17, 2023 by Mr Popodopolous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Red Cyril Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: Congratulations to Bristol Live who are running the same headline page for the fourth day in a row. 'Live' being subjective in the case of Bristol Live It appears that a transfer target who is no longer a transfer target is the biggest news event in over a year. I hadn't realised that this player (whose name I have already genuinely forgotten) was so incredibly important . Is this the end of the football world as we know it or has the entire BL staff gone on strike/holiday or simply can't think of a single alternative thing to write about? Which transfer target who is not now a transfer target should I ignore. Normal state of confusion here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 2 hours ago, bcfc01 said: Yep. Last updated on 12th August. Seems like if Piercy is on his hols there's no one to take over. Bit tinpot. I don’t know if he’s on hols, but Reach has cut resources significantly over the past few years. Last season there was James as Sports Editor and Rich Forrester for City and another guy for Rovers. That’s down to James City, new guy Rovers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, Davefevs said: I don’t know if he’s on hols, but Reach has cut resources significantly over the past few years. Last season there was James as Sports Editor and Rich Forrester for City and another guy for Rovers. That’s down to James City, new guy Rovers. I hope he is just on his hols. Seems to be the best journalist we've had for City for a very long time and appears to get along with NP which may have opened some doors to him at City. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRedRobin Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 Bristol City defender Cam Pring on West Ham rumours and fighting for his place - Bristol Live (bristolpost.co.uk) New article released Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 5 minutes ago, MrRedRobin said: Bristol City defender Cam Pring on West Ham rumours and fighting for his place - Bristol Live (bristolpost.co.uk) New article released That'll keep 'em quiet till Piercy gets back.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 To be a local journalist you got to get a element of trust from managers, nige isnt known for his love of this lot, gregor didn't act very savvy at all, trying to trip him up in interviews all the time, 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 Like a lot here, I'll use twentymen or Latham as a yardstick, ask a honest question with no agenda, people Will respond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 33 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said: Like a lot here, I'll use twentymen or Latham as a yardstick, ask a honest question with no agenda, people Will respond Peter Godsiff was the local City journalist in my youth - can't imagine him going on holiday during the season. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 4 hours ago, Davefevs said: I don’t know if he’s on hols, but Reach has cut resources significantly over the past few years. Last season there was James as Sports Editor and Rich Forrester for City and another guy for Rovers. That’s down to James City, new guy Rovers. Poor old 'new guy (covering) Rovers', hard to imagine there's a more a depressing way for anyone to spend their time. Presumably he has to constantly somehow try and make out there's something interesting about them. Tough job, seemed to turn the last bloke a bit loopy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 17, 2023 Report Share Posted August 17, 2023 Looks like Tristan Cork covering for James today at the media conference. He asked Nige a good question re approach to each opponent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never to the dark side Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 Bristol live is going the same way as the Bristol Post Bristol Post R-I-P Bristol live on life support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevedon Red Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 Bring back the green un 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 7 hours ago, Never to the dark side said: Bristol live is going the same way as the Bristol Post Bristol Post R-I-P Bristol live on life support That is local.media in much of the country for you, unsure when exactly the change for the worse begun however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 16 hours ago, Nogbad the Bad said: Poor old 'new guy (covering) Rovers', hard to imagine there's a more a depressing way for anyone to spend their time. Presumably he has to constantly somehow try and make out there's something interesting about them. Tough job, seemed to turn the last bloke a bit loopy. Need not worry, jailbird Joey is refusing to speak with Bristol Live! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 1 hour ago, East End Old Boy said: Need not worry, jailbird Joey is refusing to speak with Bristol Live! He will Tweet them for a small payment though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 The honest answer to this question is how many of us actually buy a newspaper anymore? I genuinely can’t remember when I last did. In that environment the fact that it is run on a shoestring with few reporters & people covering jobs that used to be done by several others should come as no surprise at all. Piercy is pretty good but the digital world means it is an unrecognisable industry from that which employed the late Peter Godsiff or Richard Latham. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 7 minutes ago, GrahamC said: The honest answer to this question is how many of us actually buy a newspaper anymore? I genuinely can’t remember when I last did. In that environment the fact that it is run on a shoestring with few reporters & people covering jobs that used to be done by several others should come as no surprise at all. Piercy is pretty good but the digital world means it is an unrecognisable industry from that which employed the late Peter Godsiff or Richard Latham. Remember when you used to go away on holiday and you’d have to wait to the day after the results to buy the paper to see the scores? They were the days. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 46 minutes ago, Fordy62 said: Remember when you used to go away on holiday and you’d have to wait to the day after the results to buy the paper to see the scores? They were the days. The day after the day after it reality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lack of Action Man Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Fordy62 said: Remember when you used to go away on holiday and you’d have to wait to the day after the results to buy the paper to see the scores? They were the days. I remember my dad deliberately doing this on so many of our holidays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Fordy62 said: Remember when you used to go away on holiday and you’d have to wait to the day after the results to buy the paper to see the scores? They were the days. Showing your age Fordy! Away midweek games were sometimes put out by ITV news when they started broadcasting but only if it was a very slow news day. The best one for me was a 7-4 away win at Barnsley given out in such a hurry at end of bulletin that I couldn't believe it was correct. When I told Dad he thought I was lying! Edited August 18, 2023 by cidered abroad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy1968 Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 (edited) I pick up the Bristol Post digitally free of charge on borrowbox, as part of a Bristol library membership. It's cover price is £1.70 mon-thurs, and £2.10 on a Friday. It takes me an average of 2 minutes to skim through it. (Content is 40% adverts, 20% pics, 20% generic or templated content, 20% local news). The only reason I really bother with it is so I can screenshot and pdf the cryptic crossword. If you sub through the library service (or a reading app like Readly) you can see that all Reach papers are based on the same template, with identical major ads, tv guides (subject to regional variation), generic story content (some regional, e.g. with the same stories in the Plymouth Herald, and Bristol Post, say). Some of their papers are published on a Saturday - I'm not sure why ours isn't, but perhaps they sell diddly squat on a non-work day. PS nil City coverage yesterday, and today's is just some story concocted from Cam's 'meet the press' online interview from yesterday/Wednesday. Edited August 18, 2023 by Sleepy1968 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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