Comments on: Cambrian News, Supplement https://jacothenorth.net/blog/cambrian-news-supplement/ Wales through the eyes of a cynical patriot Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:33:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Jac https://jacothenorth.net/blog/cambrian-news-supplement/#comment-1421 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:19:43 +0000 http://jacothenorth.net/blog/?p=4433#comment-1421 In reply to EmlynUwchCych.

Not sure I can accept that. If newspapers insisted on telephone numbers, then how much trouble would it be for the Cambrian News – or any weekly – to make half a dozen telephone calls once a week?

]]> By: EmlynUwchCych https://jacothenorth.net/blog/cambrian-news-supplement/#comment-1420 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:14:05 +0000 http://jacothenorth.net/blog/?p=4433#comment-1420 In my experience, Jac, letters editors never get in touch to verify that correspondence actually comes from the place it purports to. I always send them emails, and if they get printed in the Western Mail (ha ha, they usually choose to ignore them), or Golwg or the Carmarthen Journal or even the London rags, they won’t have got back to check with me first: I just see what I’ve written (usually edited) in print.

I very much doubt that the Cambrian News has the personpower to check the bona fides of the letter writers to each and every one of their editions.

]]> By: Leigh Richards https://jacothenorth.net/blog/cambrian-news-supplement/#comment-1419 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:18:24 +0000 http://jacothenorth.net/blog/?p=4433#comment-1419 i think the problem is jac that people often do ‘make it up’ …..content in the knowledge that their fabrications – whether its made up identities or risible clams about the welsh language etc will get a good airing somewhere in the ‘welsh media’ (recall the bi-lingo scam last year) ……but of course this media is only ‘welsh” in the sense these publications are sold in wales – oh and they might devote a bit of coverage to the welsh rugby team too – but the stark reality is that almost without exception every newspaper bought or read in wales is wholly owned and controlled from outside wales (and its exactly the same sorry state of affairs for the broadcast media too)…..

the cambrian news is a case in point, its owned by the surrey based tindle newspaper group……the owner and managing director of the tindle group -ray tindle- is probably best known for his infamous instruction a few years back to the editors of all the newspapers he owned that they were not to give any coverage to protests against the 2003 iraq war…..and of course im not suggesting that mr tindle himself is personally responsible for the apparent works of fantasy that have been appearing on the letters pages of the cambrian news …but im sure you get the picture…….

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