THE WORLD IS GETTING SMALLER ..
.. when the Rector of your former local church reads about news of the closure of the newspaper office in town for the first time here. The Rev. David Hodgson said on Twitter: "Learn from The Bangkok Bugle (!) that my local paper The Wokingham Times is to close its office in..er.. Wokingham").
And perhaps this is a great example of why traditional print media needs to evolve. Sure, that newspaper has a web presence but this story didn't appear on its site until at least 12 hours after I'd written about it - and I was at least 10 hours behind the first media reports.
They should have been the first to report it, and there's no excuse for someone in the town they serve reading this news from the other side of the world.
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I picked it up because I use Google Alerts set to monitor blogs for mentions of Wokingham(but I don't monitor all news because I don't want to be overwhelmed by information!)
Thanks David. And I discovered your mention of my blog using exactly the same method!
This reminds me of how I found out Phuket had been hit by a tsunami. My mum called me from Canada! She'd heard it on the radio news. The waves had struck the shore only a few kms away from my home. Small world indeed!
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