A very well written article about a very serious problem And it's no wonder the company calls itself Reach - it's not bothered about local journalism just clicks. It's unbelievable that both the MEN and Echo have to have a minimum of 850,000 "views" a month! I'm proud to have edited the Post, Echo and MEN in the 1970s and 1980s and I'm ashamed of it now. Keep up the good work.
Great article on the 'Echo" . What used to be a good read , is now an online disgrace. One of the worst on line 'newspapers"!. Access and processing to stories is bad, very bad. Many stories are frankly not news. just gossip/chatter. and the constant ads/clickbait are a major distraction/bloody nuisance. I very rarely access and now I read about their attempts to attack you, I will never access it. It is a truly appalling example of newspaper ownership and a disgrace to the city.
This is one of the reasons I subscribe to yourselves. To be honest I don’t always read every article, but I want to help create an alternative news source in this city, one that isn’t just CLICKBAIT.
I started work for the Post and Echo in 1972. When the papers split into completely separate entities in the early 80’s I became a Post employee. Over the next 25 years I was proud to be the news editor, chief sub editor, revise editor and deputy night editor. I left in 2007 and moved to the Manchester Evening News after a spell at Press Association. The Echo always catered for the mass of the Merseyside population, the Post aimed for the business community. Both aimed for a high standard of journalism, always pursuing genuine news stories affecting the lives of Merseysiders - something that can’t be said for today’s pitiful trashy Echo offerings
Really looking forward to delving in to lots of articles that interest me. Sick and tired of articles focused on crime, This Morning or how Kate Garraway’s husband is doing. If this is anything like the old Daily Post I’m excited. Good luck
Like Mike and Alistair, I worked on the Daily Post for a while and spent more than a decade as music critic. The tragedy is that, in the morass of click bait trash, arts coverage has died and the nationally significant organisations in Liverpool are ignored, because they cannot compete with the “news” about Primark shoes and Holly Willoughby’s dress. That is just one by-product of the butchering of a respected news outlet. Sadly, every online Retch (as Private Eye calls it) publication is the same, with that migraine-inducing website treating journalism as the desperately poor relation of the pop-up. A belated good luck to The Post.
And here's one I've not seen in the Echo. I wonder why?
Can anyone explain why Liverpool and its Council allow the name of the City and of the world-famous Grand National to be sullied by the continued and lucrative association with Randox, a leading beneficiary from the pandemic?
Is nothing any longer shameful?
Having 'helped' a corrupt Tory MP (another more accurate word would get me into trouble) to work on their behalf they continued to coin it at our expense.
And of course they were a major beneficiary of the £37bn Fido Harding scandal.
Private Eye this week reveals that they coined £308m profit at our expense - with a profit margin of well over 40%.
All this has been known for some time. Why the silence?
Happy to pay up front to Avoid being diverted to find out "Who Sally Nugent's partner is". The quality of writing is engaging and genuinely insightful. Keep up the good work.
Good article, explaining the context of the 'Reach effect'. When I came to Liverpool in '69,there were 2 editions per day, a "pink'un" with soccer results on a Saturday night. We knew that the mainstream press was establishment, right wing b. s., but at least there was a variety of right wing establishment b. s.
A very well written article about a very serious problem And it's no wonder the company calls itself Reach - it's not bothered about local journalism just clicks. It's unbelievable that both the MEN and Echo have to have a minimum of 850,000 "views" a month! I'm proud to have edited the Post, Echo and MEN in the 1970s and 1980s and I'm ashamed of it now. Keep up the good work.
Great article on the 'Echo" . What used to be a good read , is now an online disgrace. One of the worst on line 'newspapers"!. Access and processing to stories is bad, very bad. Many stories are frankly not news. just gossip/chatter. and the constant ads/clickbait are a major distraction/bloody nuisance. I very rarely access and now I read about their attempts to attack you, I will never access it. It is a truly appalling example of newspaper ownership and a disgrace to the city.
This is one of the reasons I subscribe to yourselves. To be honest I don’t always read every article, but I want to help create an alternative news source in this city, one that isn’t just CLICKBAIT.
I started work for the Post and Echo in 1972. When the papers split into completely separate entities in the early 80’s I became a Post employee. Over the next 25 years I was proud to be the news editor, chief sub editor, revise editor and deputy night editor. I left in 2007 and moved to the Manchester Evening News after a spell at Press Association. The Echo always catered for the mass of the Merseyside population, the Post aimed for the business community. Both aimed for a high standard of journalism, always pursuing genuine news stories affecting the lives of Merseysiders - something that can’t be said for today’s pitiful trashy Echo offerings
Really looking forward to delving in to lots of articles that interest me. Sick and tired of articles focused on crime, This Morning or how Kate Garraway’s husband is doing. If this is anything like the old Daily Post I’m excited. Good luck
So happy there is another option! Paid subscriber, thank you!
Yes keep up the good work. Hope that other “publication “ will not smother you!
How do Google explain their funding of Reach alone?
Like Mike and Alistair, I worked on the Daily Post for a while and spent more than a decade as music critic. The tragedy is that, in the morass of click bait trash, arts coverage has died and the nationally significant organisations in Liverpool are ignored, because they cannot compete with the “news” about Primark shoes and Holly Willoughby’s dress. That is just one by-product of the butchering of a respected news outlet. Sadly, every online Retch (as Private Eye calls it) publication is the same, with that migraine-inducing website treating journalism as the desperately poor relation of the pop-up. A belated good luck to The Post.
I am so happy to have found a 'proper' source of local news. Interesting, insightful reporting . Long may it continue!
And here's one I've not seen in the Echo. I wonder why?
Can anyone explain why Liverpool and its Council allow the name of the City and of the world-famous Grand National to be sullied by the continued and lucrative association with Randox, a leading beneficiary from the pandemic?
Is nothing any longer shameful?
Having 'helped' a corrupt Tory MP (another more accurate word would get me into trouble) to work on their behalf they continued to coin it at our expense.
And of course they were a major beneficiary of the £37bn Fido Harding scandal.
Private Eye this week reveals that they coined £308m profit at our expense - with a profit margin of well over 40%.
All this has been known for some time. Why the silence?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/05/is-randox-a-suitable-sponsor-for-grand-national-after-owen-paterson-sleaze-row-horse-racing
The Echo is a complete rag - thank you for the article. I'm interested on the concept of Google giving Grants? I've not heard of this before?
Happy to pay up front to Avoid being diverted to find out "Who Sally Nugent's partner is". The quality of writing is engaging and genuinely insightful. Keep up the good work.
I'm not 'bored of'; I'm bored WITH.
Good article, explaining the context of the 'Reach effect'. When I came to Liverpool in '69,there were 2 editions per day, a "pink'un" with soccer results on a Saturday night. We knew that the mainstream press was establishment, right wing b. s., but at least there was a variety of right wing establishment b. s.
Subscribed. Give em hell