Accrington Observer photo spreads. - Page 3

garinda · 07-07-2007, 23:19

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley

just had an idea lets have a competition how to get your photo in the paper

Idea 1/
'Hello I'm sixty next Saturday and I'm having a party in my back garden.'

Idea 2/
Find an insect on a piece of fruit or veg, act outraged, threaten never to darken the dirty beggars doors again.

Idea 3/
Die.

All three should work well.

cmonstanley · 08-07-2007, 09:11

4.join a cricket club[dont matter how rubbish i am just get in the clique]

Uncle Mick · 08-07-2007, 09:58

Ah, in the olden days the reporters all lived in the area and knew what was going on in the town. Nowadays most of the reporters could`nt find their way around without a Shurmers. I`m sure my good friend "Scoop" Anson former deputy editor will be most interested in these comments.

yerself · 08-07-2007, 10:02

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Originally Posted by Lilly

People aren't interested in the kids of folk they've never met.It's boring.

The newspapers and magazines such as Hello & OK sell in their millions. Everyone featured in them is the child of someone most of us have never met.

Gayle · 08-07-2007, 10:21

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Originally Posted by Uncle Mick

Ah, in the olden days the reporters all lived in the area and knew what was going on in the town. Nowadays most of the reporters could`nt find their way around without a Shurmers. I`m sure my good friend "Scoop" Anson former deputy editor will be most interested in these comments.

If the Telegraph wasn't as guilty!

I send a lot of press releases to local papers and am frequently shocked at how inaccurate articles are when they have the information right in front of them. National papers are just as bad.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-07-2007, 14:22

I used to be responsible for doing the same thing in Rawtenstall Gayle. When I would read the article in the paper later it often bore no resemblance to the information which I'd sent them.

cashman · 08-07-2007, 19:15

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Originally Posted by Uncle Mick

Ah, in the olden days the reporters all lived in the area and knew what was going on in the town. Nowadays most of the reporters could`nt find their way around without a Shurmers. I`m sure my good friend "Scoop" Anson former deputy editor will be most interested in these comments.

think yer on the mark their Uncle Mick, i bet he will,pity he cant do nowt about it.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-07-2007, 23:14

It was just a passing comment on how pointless some of the stories in the Observer actually are.

It could just as easily have been40, 50 or 70, or 'my dog is 21'. Do you have a problem with ageism or something?

garinda · 08-07-2007, 23:21

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

It was just a passing comment on how pointless some of the stories in the Observer actually are.

It could just as easily have been40, 50 or 70, or 'my dog is 21'. Do you have a problem with ageism or something?

I'll change it to keep some people happy.

'Hello is that the Observer?'

'I'm having my fortieth birthday party in my front room a week on Sunday, could you send a photographer?'

Result, a sixth of a page taken up with people in a room full of nibbles.

(Appologies to anyone approaching forty. I hope I haven't hurt and offended you too much by saying a birth date.)

WillowTheWhisp · 08-07-2007, 23:23

You'll be having Mick banning you next Rindy - when he had his 50th the Observer did come and take photos!

garinda · 08-07-2007, 23:26

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

You'll be having Mick banning you next Rindy - when he had his 50th the Observer did come and take photos!

Lolllllllllllll, oopsie.

Bye.

KIPAX · 09-07-2007, 01:02

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

And to think somebody complained that Kipax charges £3 for his.

I haven't bought a print from the Observer for ages

Did they.. Not to me they havent... Now you tell everyone perhaps you can explain who and why?

Before you start I can tell you that even at 3 quid I aint making much more than pennies..The actual print costs me about 20 pence from photobox.. but then 1.50 quid delivery to me.. then I ahve to pay delivery to whoever bought... I make more if someone buys more than one but I dont actually sell many.. I cant remember ever selling an accy stanley pic.. i havent got a printer anymore and cant afford one

I pay 150 quid a yr for public liability cover.. 150 a yr per camera service. fuel to get to places blah blah.. i only charge the 3 quid because aftre giving pictures away for years i was starting to lose out badly..

and now someones complaining at 3 quid .. unbelievable..

go on willow.. who ?

garinda · 09-07-2007, 07:34

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Originally Posted by KIPAX

and now someones complaining at 3 quid .. unbelievable..

go on willow.. who ?

The only person I know who requested a photograph from you, you ended up giving it them for free. Hardly the actions of someone who is out to make a killing from people.

garinda · 09-07-2007, 10:06

I would like to point out that as I said in the very first post of this thread, I have no problem with the weekly two page spread of people's celebration photographs, or even the page devoted to photos of people in the featured pub, nor the occasional spread of bonny babies/glasses wearer of the year/cutest pet competition. It is just the seven pages of photographs that are devoted to people that the majority of readers will have no interest in, such as the first communion ones, and next week's promised school prom special.

Photographs can be interesting and help illustrate a story, but compared with the Observer of old, they are just filling valuable space, and replace what we buy a newspaper for, the news.

claytonender · 09-07-2007, 12:39

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Originally Posted by garinda

Photographs can be interesting and help illustrate a story, but compared with the Observer of old, they are just filling valuable space, and replace what we buy a newspaper for, the news.

I agree with you entirely, maybe the Observer has forgotten that its main function is to provide news. I suppose the only way to get them to sit up and take any notice is if enough people vote with their fwallet and stop buying the paper. Maybe then they might relaise that is news we want.

As an aside - it is also annoying the number of adverts for Rossendale and job vacancies, most of which are for the Rochdale area. Do no employers in Hyndburn want to advertise any job vacancies they have.