9/11, as seen by the Newport Argus
Stumbled across this as I was looking for Goff Morgan's Newport poem. Why would anyone buy the Argus to find out about September 11th?
Anyone else have examples of great world events seen through the prism of local rags? How about the Witney Gazette's reporting of the Asian Tsunami, Wheaty? Or the Ham Recorder's account of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Daisy?
posted by tom at 4:01 am
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I still have NO IDEA who won the mid terms in the US - the Royston & Buntingford Crow doesn't come out til Friday.
'Fond memories' of life on a local paper include - randomly phoning around Oxfordshire, not a county known for its massive catholic population, to try to find people upset about the pope's death; phoning people with Sri-Lankan sounding names (yes, easy) in the hopes of finding relatives of tsunami victims; and running the dramatic story of a Witney family's rescue from the floods in Boscastle... two weeks afer the waters had subsides.
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