On page 2 the Press today laments the poor turn-out at last night's public meeting on the new tax on real property system being introduced in January. Of course it's lucky that those of us who couldn't find time to turn up can rely on the Press to send their most senior political reporting staff to cover these events.
Or did they? The article is headlined with a thoroughly negative (and wholly unrepresentative) quote allegedly made at the meeting by Chief Minister Mike Torode. This comes as a surprise since Mike Torode wasn't even present. It probably comes as a particular surprise for Lyndon Trott, who is in charge of implementing the new system, chaired the meeting and made the remarks in question, but isn't mentioned in the article at all!
Update (23/06): A correction appeared in today's Press, but interestingly the online edition of the original article has the mistake erased.
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1 comment:
Hi there - just stumbled across your blog (while studiously avoiding doing some useful work). I've tagged it and I'll start reading it.
I enjoy your ribbing of the 'Press. I have a friend in England who is involved (sort of) with journalism and she always hoots with laughter when I tell her what gets reported here. ('Lightning Strike Killed My TV', a couple of years ago, was a big favorite.)
It strikes me that there really isn't enough worthwhile news to justify a daily paper here. We would be better off with a weekly, surely??
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