The Guernsey Press reported in their Editors' Blog and Saturday's GP comment that news editor James Falla was the only media representative who turned up to a T&R press conference on the zero-10 strategy - ostensibly a very important meeting about the biggest deal in the States right now.
Shaun Green's blog post was quick to admonish the broadcast media for neglecting this high-profile and far-reaching issue: 'Who was present from our two radio stations and two TV stations (including BBC)? No one.'
Thank you GP for alerting us to this - indeed, one doesn't have to look back that far in the mists of time to see other examples of the media neglecting important stories for the sake of piquing public hysteria with tabloid trivia.
If only the GP team could have meted out similar opprobrium to the outlet which decided to run a dismal report on UFOs as their lead story on the 26th April, when the previous day's population debate in the States and the last lobbying efforts and political manouevres in advance of the debate on the Milk Law were at the top of the agenda for most of the media.
It wasn't even news - this was the day after the whole UFO affair had already been thoroughly dissected by every other pundit in the galaxy. So in a desperate bid to whip it up into a good lather the report even included the priceless and apparently shameless aside that 'the sightings come days after reports that scientists have discovered outside our solar system an Earth-like planet capable of supporting extraterrestrial life'.
So which news team was too busy spunking over a quick sales opportunity to give due coverage to the real news of the day? Step forward the Guernsey Press...
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