West Country confusion

West Country confusion

The Western Daily Press is a stablemate of the Bristol Post and seems to share many of the latter’s afflictions – the same ugly Brutalist building on Bristol’s Temple Way, poor English, dodgy photo captions and the like.

It was therefore no surprise to encounter a prime example of confused reporting this morning, as illustrated by the screenshot below.

screensot of garbled article from Western Daily Press

If one examines the article to which the news page above relates, three disparate elements seem to have been combined by reporter Geoff Bennett (who also writes for the Bristol Post. Ed.) and his associates, i.e.:

  • a headline referring to widespread outbreaks of salmonella food poisoning in hospitals in England;
  • a cuddly kittens picture and apposite caption; and
  • a report on the court case of the alleged groping barber (who was cleared by the court. Ed.) which gave rise to Friday’s sexist Bristol Post front page (posts passim).

There is nothing like good, unambiguous reporting of the news – and the Western Daily Press is capable of nothing like it!

Author: Steve Woods

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