I am genuinely upset by this whole pathetic tirade over council newspapers.
It appears we’re on the way to openly branding councils as Stalinist regimes, churning out twisted propaganda and hell bent on the destruction of an oppressed local media.
At the same time we have the chairman of the Local Government Association claiming that council newspapers do not operate as rivals. Utter tosh – she should read the stated objectives of council publications on her own members’ websites. You’d have to be on a flight with fairies to think that pulling advertising from a local paper and publishing your own 100,000-distribution freesheet wouldn’t have some effect.
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