My opinion of the Todmorden News has never been paticularly high. Their refusal to print letters from opposition voices to the main parties is due largely to their being owned by the Johnstone Press cartel, which owns the Scotsman, Yorkshire Post and around 1/3 of all local, formerly independent newspapers in the UK.
Recently they have been getting extremely lazy. Not only do they fail to attend important Town Hall meetings, but now appeal to people to bring their reporters stories to the Kava cafe, because their journalists are apparently too idle to go out and get the facts before distorting them.
I have witnessed this first hand since they covered the armed raid on my property (based on a dodgy tip-off from the local Liberal Democrats jewish boss) as around 20 armed police working in conjunction with local community police. In reality this was a 40+ man specialist team, armed with both H&K MP5 Machine Pistols, and three dog units. Third party witnesses told me that snipers were positioned all around armed with what seem to be M4 Rifles, and the day before they had a reconnisance Helicopter scouting. And the big lie - the local police knew NOTHING about it. My comments to the newspaper article were promptly removed from the Tod News website.
So we know the local press will lie, or at least intelligent people know that. They are so idle that they fill their letters column up with the contents of their Hebden Bridge mailbag unless some all important letter from Frank McManus or Rabbi "Slick Mick" (or Dr. Michael Taylor) is sent in. And who could forget their patetic photoshoped headlines with Councillors being cut out of pictures and transplanted on new backgrounds.
Now the Todmorden News' head has totally vanished up it's proverbial backside as the front cover of the paper is featuring Coun. "Champagne Chris" Baksa, the Liberal Democrats most useless, mentally-unstable elected representative. This embarassment's behaviour has been exposed many times on this blog. Now the Todmorden News is parading Coun. Chris Baksa as a serious politician with something serious to say - on their front page.
Baksa has no influence whatsoever on Rose Street, within his party (who will no doubt stick him up in a hopeless ward to get rid of him, in 2015), or within the Town Council and Jonathan Greenwood (editor of the Todmorden News) knows that. I think it's time the Todmorden News was put out of it's misery.
Recently they have been getting extremely lazy. Not only do they fail to attend important Town Hall meetings, but now appeal to people to bring their reporters stories to the Kava cafe, because their journalists are apparently too idle to go out and get the facts before distorting them.
I have witnessed this first hand since they covered the armed raid on my property (based on a dodgy tip-off from the local Liberal Democrats jewish boss) as around 20 armed police working in conjunction with local community police. In reality this was a 40+ man specialist team, armed with both H&K MP5 Machine Pistols, and three dog units. Third party witnesses told me that snipers were positioned all around armed with what seem to be M4 Rifles, and the day before they had a reconnisance Helicopter scouting. And the big lie - the local police knew NOTHING about it. My comments to the newspaper article were promptly removed from the Tod News website.
So we know the local press will lie, or at least intelligent people know that. They are so idle that they fill their letters column up with the contents of their Hebden Bridge mailbag unless some all important letter from Frank McManus or Rabbi "Slick Mick" (or Dr. Michael Taylor) is sent in. And who could forget their patetic photoshoped headlines with Councillors being cut out of pictures and transplanted on new backgrounds.
Now the Todmorden News' head has totally vanished up it's proverbial backside as the front cover of the paper is featuring Coun. "Champagne Chris" Baksa, the Liberal Democrats most useless, mentally-unstable elected representative. This embarassment's behaviour has been exposed many times on this blog. Now the Todmorden News is parading Coun. Chris Baksa as a serious politician with something serious to say - on their front page.
Baksa has no influence whatsoever on Rose Street, within his party (who will no doubt stick him up in a hopeless ward to get rid of him, in 2015), or within the Town Council and Jonathan Greenwood (editor of the Todmorden News) knows that. I think it's time the Todmorden News was put out of it's misery.