Courier

[Bobh]

Great post(s) Mr Plod

[maxmix]

I'm gonna stop readin it

You will find thats the case with a lot of folk I stopped many years ago....

maxmix

[smiles]

even though it is now full of stuff from as far afield as lochgilphead, Inveraray etc etc.

There is far too much "other" news in the Courier that is irrelevant to Campbeltown and Kintyre. If I wanted to know about Lochgilphead, Islay etc I would buy their local paper or indeed I would buy the Oban Times which covers most news. There is far more going on locally yet little is reported. It's as if it is too much work.

please come on the wee paper is good i aint from the area but i live here and always buy it yes some times i pick it up and have a wee moan that its getting thinner but i still buy it and i see a lot of people i know in it my partner my son and friends thankfully for good reasons and not in the court parts the main thing is we have a wee local paper lets give it our support and i dont mean just buying the paper if you think there is something worth seeing in the paper why dont you write in to them or just walk in and if there not busy have chat and give them some ideas i am sure they will be very approachable and if your moaning about a national paper being so cheap just think about all the adverts in there and the fact they sell millions of copies a day and yes it ticks me off some times that in this day and age with the technology we have that the spelling is not always correct but if thats all you have to worry about in your life then good luck to you and if you dont like the price please just dont buy it and i always do the spot the ball that i have been close twice and will keep doing its Christmas vat is going up people are being made redundant from there jobs daily unemployment is rising but forget all that the most important thing is you dont want to pay 75 measly pence to support your local paper well merry Christmas to you all

PS - Timebanker - something gives me the impression you work for the Courier.... Guid New Year to ya all.

[Crowth]

PS - Timebanker - something gives me the impression you work for the Courier....

Smiles - Was it the grammar and punctuation that gave it away?

Happy New Year to everyone

[Mr Plod]

PS - Timebanker - something gives me the impression you work for the Courier....

Smiles - Was it the grammar and punctuation that gave it away?

Happy New Year to everyone

Hahahahahahahaha I don't think I've ever seen a 15 line sentence without a single punctuation mark or a paragraph break in a newspaper. You must have been out of breath when you got to the last word. Hahahaha brilliant one liner reply though.

Happy new year to you

[Bobh]

That must be the best (or worst) rant i have ever read............anywhere.

[Timebanker]

How angry I am that you feel you should mock my grammar/spelling.
I do not work for the paper, I just have my own views which I wanted to express!
I thought the whole point of the forum was so you could post something with out the piss taken out of you.
So I have english / spelling issues - doesn't anyone else?
At least I had a go - confidence knocked no thanks to the last lot of comments.

[Isa]

How angry I am that you feel you should mock my grammar/spelling.
I do not work for the paper, I just have my own views which I wanted to express!
I thought the whole point of the forum was so you could post something with out the piss taken out of you.
So I have english / spelling issues - doesn't anyone else?
At least I had a go - confidence knocked no thanks to the last lot of comments.

Timebanker don't be put off posting your thoughts. There are a number of members on here whose spelling and grammar is supect. Maybe we should all pick up on it when it happens to them.

[Govangirl]

Timebanker, honestly, people are only joking. Your wee 'rant' was a great one and very interesting. People were just having a wee bit of banter I think. Sometimes in print it comes out wrong. Your posts are enjoyable so keep them coming

Oops, Isa has already posted the same Yes Isa, we'd all be picking at each other's posts constantly. It's WHAT'S been said that's important!

[katya]

You have some quite constructive criticism in there Mr Plod, but I think it is very important for people to put their views to the Courier directly. It is one thing to post on a public forum, but the Courier have their own website, or a facebook page if that is your sort of thing. If anyone has something interesting to say, or even criticisms of the paper, that is what the letter's page is for. I don't work for the paper, but my sister did some years ago and I know a few people who currently do. There are many things which happen locally that the Courier don't report on, simply because no-one lets them know they are occurring.
In short, if someone is not happy with the local paper - tell them. If you are running a local event and want it reported on - tell them.
PS. this is not a post directed at Mr Plod, I was just picking up on his comments

[Mr Plod]

This is a valid point Katya, and to be honest, I have written before re the letters page a few times. To no avail. I have sent e-mails to no avail. Maybe they were too long winded, I don't know.

Actually, the letters page and the farming pages are the only bit's I really like to read so if they sorted out the letters page so it was'nt full of dull political stuff and had letters from readers (who are not councillors or politicos) then that would be an improvement. For me. Some people have even suggested I should be on page 3 - where all the tits are - but I digress.

I once got a reply (the only reply ever) telling me that my e-mail was in the wrong format and could I send it in as a word document ? Eh? !? In other words, whoever read it did'nt have the time to cut and paste the body of the e-mail into a word document themselves. I was sufficiently disillusioned to never reply to that reply.

I have written several letters which never got to the page, only to find the entire letters page on those occassions filled with huge letters from Argyll MP's tossing insults at each other and decrying each others party for lying about some previous promises made and never kept. Or long winded Central Government circulars from some Quango in "Emburra". Or the usual letter from Eugene Volestrangler Jnr III, Connecticut, USA looking to trace relatives etc etc hut in Muasdale, 1775 etc etc.

I have had one letter I wrote, praising the town and it's citizens, published which was seriously whittled down but the gist of the letter was retained. Happy days

The one letter I wrote that I really did want published, but which they never did, was entitled CAMPBELTOWN DOG OWNERS!! and went something like "Attention all campbeltown dog owners - don't bother picking up your dog s**t after it's had a dump on the pavement - I'll get it with my bare f***in hands when I'm scoopin up my f***in hedge clippins!!" Shame really. Dug the hedge up 3 weeks later.

I am quite sure many many people more intelligent than I can ever hope to be, have written and complained about the way their local rag is going downhill. Quite a few National dailies are struggling as well with their content so it's a common malaise.

I suppose I should copy the content of my previous post and e-mail it to the courier with a wish list for the letters page content to be re-jigged. Maybe if everyone on this thread penned a nice letter with constructive criticism one of them would get published and start a public debate on the way forward. A way to get the readership numbers back up in the black.

Hmmm, I wonder if I can get it in before the print day cutoff?

[maxmix]

I once got a reply (the only reply ever) telling me that my e-mail was in the wrong format and could I send it in as a word document ?

I find this very hard to believe ! Surely a program of this high standard can correct spelling and grammar !

maxmix

PS The only 'Word' The Courier uses IMO is.... 'Word' of mouth !

[Bobh]

How angry I am that you feel you should mock my grammar/spelling.
I do not work for the paper, I just have my own views which I wanted to express!
I thought the whole point of the forum was so you could post something with out the piss taken out of you.
So I have english / spelling issues - doesn't anyone else?
At least I had a go - confidence knocked no thanks to the last lot of comments.

Please keep posting, as Govangirl says it a bit of banter. When you post on a forum you may need to 'toughen' up a little, as lots of people do express their views strongly. You certainly seem passionate regarding the Courier, and there is nothing wrong with that. Happy New Year.

[Crowth]

How angry I am that you feel you should mock my grammar/spelling etc...

Timebanker

Apologies for making you feel that way.

My comment was actually aimed at the courier, my reasoning being that the grammar and punctuation ommissions in your rant seemed intentional and because of that no offence should have been taken on your part. Your latest post appears to have no more English/spelling issues than any of my own posts, which only helps to reinforce my previous assumption.

As GG says, sometimes in print it comes out wrong, always bear that in mind. Lighten up, no one's taking the p*ss.

[Kintyre Lad]

You have some quite constructive criticism in there Mr Plod, but I think it is very important for people to put their views to the Courier directly. It is one thing to post on a public forum, but the Courier have their own website, or a facebook page if that is your sort of thing. If anyone has something interesting to say, or even criticisms of the paper, that is what the letter's page is for. I don't work for the paper, but my sister did some years ago and I know a few people who currently do. There are many things which happen locally that the Courier don't report on, simply because no-one lets them know they are occurring.
In short, if someone is not happy with the local paper - tell them. If you are running a local event and want it reported on - tell them.
PS. this is not a post directed at Mr Plod, I was just picking up on his comments

Have you ever tried raising anything with them? It just gets ignored! There is nothing wrong with a local forum discussing a local issue which this is. My son tells me they have been deleting posts on their Facebook page too.