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Let's take this as face value: 'reporting involves reporting what people say'.
What people? How did you find them? How did you choose them? How did you decide who gets a voice? https://twitter.com/helenpidd/status/1280972824463781898
What people? How did you find them? How did you choose them? How did you decide who gets a voice? https://twitter.com/helenpidd/status/1280972824463781898
Labour lost Leigh by fewer than 2000 votes (recording 19k+) yet your 800 word article includes interviews with four people displaying cultural and economic anxiety - and expressing this through support for the Tories.
Where are the voices of those critical of the past 10 years of Tory rule?
If you can't find one in Leigh then I will suggest, with the greatest of respect, you weren't looking very far.
If you can't find one in Leigh then I will suggest, with the greatest of respect, you weren't looking very far.
The idea that journalism is some neutral and objective account of contemporary events and society has to be the biggest bag of baloney and it's not one that you should be peddling in the public sphere if you want to be taken seriously.
Other than that, a cracking job by @helenpidd in furthering Leigh's reputation as a hotbed of reactionary conservatism... sorry, legitimate concerns.
