THE most frustrating thing about being news editor of the Visitor is that we come out a day after our ‘competition’.
We are first with the exclusives, but sometimes even they manage to stumble over a decent front page.
Huge stories that break before a Tuesday are usually snapped-up by the opposition and used in some way.
Yet more often than not we’ll have a selection of articles (see this week’s new-look edition for example) to choose from, stories we know they haven’t touched.
So imagine my surprise when I saw last week’s ‘splash’ on their front page: MARKS & SPARKS FOR PRESTATYN
Great news for the town, granted.
However, the Visitor ran that same front page in July 2007!
Mayor Ann Horobin and town councillor Gerry Frobisher obviously don’t remember it either, as they’re quoted as welcoming the development.
Their news team did exactly the same thing a few months ago, a week after we revealed the Pavilion Theatre in Rhyl was under threat.
And the sub-editors must have ran out of ideas because they used a carbon copy of our headline: THE FINAL CURTAIN.
I’m not being facetious, but if we don’t pull them up on it, who will?
When our ‘rivals’ last beat us to a story (I believe it was a tale about hell freezing over) we held our hands up in the Rhyl office and gave them credit. When we make a mistake we apologise for it, and we all make mistakes, we're only human.
Stick with us, we’ll keep you informed of what’s going on in the area, and we won’t do it 12 months from now.
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Bolly wrote...
We'll hold you to that.......I thought I'd read it somewhere before!
Posted by: Bolly | June 12, 2008 4:25 PM