Coverage is de-pressing!

Our contributor "Scanner" was bang on the money to criticise our local newspapers for their general lack of enthusiasm for anything municipal."Accurate and detailed accounts of council meetings seem to be a thing of the past," he wrote."Are the days of investigative reporting by our locals over as well? Does apathy rule OK? "They seem to just accept council statements at their face value without any questioning. Don’t they do any in-depth scrutiny of decisions made within the hallowed walls in Wet Street Buildings? Have they even heard of the Freedom of Information Act?"If any councillors out there can give answers to the above questions, I’m sure the Target and the Standard would be pleased to publish them for you. But please don’t make the figures too complicated as they may not understand them."We speak from experience when we say that journalists by and large are a lazy lot. Today's band of inky pilgrims are by and large ill trained wannabes (they usually aspire to a quick move to radio or television as a leap to fame and fortune) with a degree from a college which can barely spell its name, and who continue that tradition in their writings.
Years ago, Boston Borough Council employed a former Standard hack to attend meetings and fax reports to the local press and local radio. At least this guaranteed some sort of coverage - even though it was mostly of the self-serving style that the Bypass Independents would doubtless regard as good. But at least it meant wider coverage of council affairs which in turn helped maintain public interest in what the council was doing on their behalf.
The council has of course had a website for some time, but it is used in a strange manner.
In these days of domination by the world wide web, we would have thought that it was not beyond the "wit" of the borough's communicators to inform the electorate of the decisions of those who regard themselves as our betters as soon as possible.
Instead information is hard to obtain - and the "approved" medium - "Boston Matters" - is nothing more than a money wasting laughing stock which in the days before Izal was invented would have found a more worthy purpose.
Yet another in the long line of insults from our so-called "representatives."

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