{"id":8501,"date":"2018-04-23T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2018-04-23T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:53:08","slug":"local-rag-now-employing-greengrocers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8501","title":{"rendered":"Local rag now employing greengrocers*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes are taking place at the increasingly downmarket <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_World\">Local World<\/a> group of regional newspaper titles owned by Trinity Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>These changes are also being implemented at the Bristol Post, the city&#8217;s newspaper of (warped) record, whose online version now masquerades under the misleading title of BristolLive, as any signs of sentience have yet to be medically confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>As circulation has declined, so have standards to the point where it appears that greengrocers (or should that be greengrocer&#8217;s? Ed.) are cheaper to employ than what passes nowadays for journalists &#8211; or even journalist&#8217;s. This desperate move is amply illustrated by the screenshot below for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/bristols-st-cycling-infrastructure-now-1482788\">story<\/a> lifted from scanning social media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/post_greengrocer.png\" alt=\"headline reads Bristol&#039;s s**t cycling infrastructure now has it&#039;s own Twitter account\" width=\"491\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/post_greengrocer.png 491w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/post_greengrocer-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, locals can expect more news from Homophone Corner (<em>that&#8217;s a site to be seen. Ed.<\/em> \ud83d\ude09 ) and hard-hitting stories of the &#8220;<em>Hartcliffe man stubs toe on Bristol Bridge<\/em>&#8221; variety and barely concealed advertisements masquerading as restaurant reviews, mostly for places whose obituaries subsequently describe them as &#8220;<em>popular<\/em>&#8221; when they inevitably close down less than a year later.<\/p>\n<p>* Or should that be greengrocer&#8217;s? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes are taking place at the increasingly downmarket Local World group of regional newspaper titles owned by Trinity Mirror. These changes are also being implemented at the Bristol Post, the city&#8217;s newspaper of (warped) record, whose online version now masquerades under the misleading title of BristolLive, as any signs of sentience have yet to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,34],"tags":[40,36,16,22,33,35],"class_list":["post-8501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-social-media","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}