As part of my professional life, I have been peripherally involved in the reporting of this terribly sad story.

Something like this is always going to evoke strong reactions, especially in somewhere like Shropshire, which is a generally low-crime region, where everyone knows everyone in their locality. It’s going also going to hit particularly hard in Oswestry, which was right next to the centre of a very similar story in 2008.

In both cases, Facebook provided the media with images of some of the victims and reaction quotes from people who knew them and random members of the general public who felt moved, whether directly involved or not, to give their two penn’orth.

I will say right up front that I have no idea whether the commenter I quote below knew the McFall family personally, and this is not intended as a personal attack on them in any shape or form, but anyone posting on this facebook fan page and the others that have sprung up since the tragedy are on shaky ground when complaining about newspapers taking quotes off websites in their reporting of this story.

The one objector I found says: “I find it quite distressing to learn that newspapers are taking messages from this page to include in their stories, and they are doing it WITHOUT seeking permision. Do these newspaper people have no compassion?”

Firstly, why is our objector distressed? I don’t understand. The vast majority of these comments are left by well wishers and entirely supportive. I am in no way an official spokesperson for my employers here, but from reading our coverage, it’s not like we evil newspaper people are lifting these remembrances and twisting them to suit our diabolical purposes in which we imply the dead girl had it coming. In fact, none of the coverage I’ve read anywhere has disrespected the memory of the McFall family by using these messages. Oh wait, it seems internet users have been the ones doing the disrespecting.

Secondly, if you don’t want your comments reproduced elsewhere, then for God’s sake, don’t put them on a public forum that anyone can access. These messages are in the public domain, anyone can sign up for facebook, anyone can read what’s been said. The comments have already been given away for free - they’re on a free to use site so they can’t be complaining about a lack of renumeration. It’s not an invasion of privacy, because people have willingly put these thoughts out onto a site that has almost no barriers to entry, on a page which has no barriers to view. I’ve lost track of how many gazillion users facebook is supposed to have these days, but trust me, reproducing these comments in newspaper articles is hardly going to have a significant impact on how many people read them compared with putting them on a website that has several hundred million users. A little perspective please. And don’t put anything online you’re not happy with someone else seeing.

Thirdly, the way this comment is written implies that we should be having compassion for the poor unfortunates whose comments on a public forum accessible to millions have been used without seeking their permission. I’m aware this wasn’t the intention of the poster, but poorly-phrased arguments annoy me.

Fourthly, as a newspaper person who was asked to ring round for reaction quotes to this story and often found I was breaking news of a suspected double murder and suicide to people who had previously no inkling that anything untoward had happened in their nice little town that day, I can confirm that we do indeed have compassion.

I’m a big fan of singer songwriter Thea Gilmore and of all the various e-mail alertymajigs I’m signed up to, hers is one of the few I actually bother reading when they drop into my inbox. I’ve met her twice after gigs and was all awkwardly pleased when she remembered me, admittedly with a little prompting, the second time, more than a year later.

So I was interested to read in one of her more recent e-mails that she’s introducing a subscription service of £52 a year to try to make music pay in these times of Recession and Everything Is Free On The Internet But Creative People Still Need To Earn A Living, Right? For the subscription, you get 12 exclusive tracks a year unavailable anywhere else, a handwritten signed songsheet, badges, access to a special website written by Thea, entry to exclusive gigs, backstage passes and various other assorted benefits. It’s all explained on this MySpace entry.

My initial reaction to this was not good. I remembered how I felt when I discovered that you had to pay to subscribe to David Bowie’s official site. My obsession with Bowie’s music is even greater than my love for Thea Gilmore’s. I had recently paid around £45 to “see” Bowie at Wembley. We were way back on the left and were largely watching a screen. Still, it was brilliant and I loved it. I bought a gig programme, two T-shirts, a set of badges and possibly a few other things. I spent nearly £100 in total on the ticket and the merchandise. And when I found out about the website felt horribly, horribly exploited. Maybe it was because I was so used to the idea of Free On The Internet, but I resolved I would never join it. It’s like being charged for being devoted to someone. I don’t mind paying for albums, I don’t mind paying for gigs, I can see there that fair exchange is no robbery. But I entirely failed to see (and still do) why someone reputedly as loaded as Bowie would need to charge fans to belong to his website. Apparently, he occasionally visits it and fans can chat to him. But to me that kind of relationship seems almost like paying someone to be friends with you, paying them to deign to pay attention to you. Like going on a date with an escort that happens to be a minor deity who can swan off out of the liaison whenever they like.

Yes, I’m aware I’m chronically naive and people will always want to make money somehow and it’s nice work for thems that can get it and I should go off and make my own filthy lucre and stop whining, you blasted commie etc.

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The thing is, if every artist I like goes down this route, I just won’t be able to afford to be a fan anymore. Or at least, only a fan of about four bands a year. If it’s a success and generates enough revenue, I can see artists of the future deciding to release their entire output to a dedicated audience who pay an upfront subscription. And if the numbers of fans means they can afford to drop the subscriptions, well and good. But what if they keep them high just to get rich? Not everyone is as principled as (the amazing) Thea Gilmore. Might we not end up with a situation where people only subscribe to who’s affordable rather than who’s any good? I’m really taking off into 2101 here, but we could find ourselves in a society where the music you listen to is entirely dependent on your income and who you can afford to subscribe to. A music-based class system.

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  • community
  • partnership(s)
  • empower/ing/ed
  • anti-social behaviour

I reckon if I can expunge those four dread creations from my work, the clarity (quality?!) of my writing will significantly increase. The importance of word choice is a favourite hobby horse of mine but I really feel it’s something worth taking a stand on. We will fight politically abusive language on the beaches and in our column inches. I’m not saying I regularly use these words anyway, but they appear in so many press releases we’re sent that if you use any of the press release at all, it’s a skill in itself to weed them all out.

This post was sparked by a press release mentioning the work of a “partnership” to “break down barriers in the community”. Can I say “Wut?” If it’s a community, surely the barriers are around it, not in it? But before we get ourselves in a tizzy trying to unravel that, I’ll move on.

To explain: In his brilliant book, Unspeak, Steven Poole attacks the use of “community” as divisive, pointing out that it is frequently used to label minority groups and set them apart. F’rinstance, we hear of the Jewish community and the gay community, but never the white community. In my regional journalist world, “community” seems increasingly to be used to mean “anyone above the age of 21 who is obviously not a cider-drinking, beer-swilling, hoodie-wearing, chavvy little scumbag”. Given that I’m also sick to the back teeth of ageism directed against young people, I’m going to refuse to use it on that basis that is divisive and discriminatory.

Partnerships: the use of this word annoys me because it is often used in a way that I think is incorrect. It’s also an excuse for every local government association with a profile and an agenda to push to muscle in on any coverage. People I speak to recite them like a mantra “You have to say thank you to the housing association’s cactus and the police helicopter and the council recycling bins and the mayor’s sister’s puppy.” Ok, I’m exaggerating, but it’s a pretty good bet that, nine times out of ten, none of the groups trying to claim credit for whatever I’m reporting were responsible for the bright idea behind the story. They’re just coming in at the 11th hour and making themselves look good. I’ll admit they probably do bring something to the table on occasion, but I’m not there to flatter them. I’m there to make sure they’re doing their jobs properly. But mainly it annoys me because it’s used to describe groups of MORE THAN TWO. I know there are usually more than two partners in firms and such, but the overriding use I associate with it is to mean one body and then another. TWO. Not, three, six or ten. Two. You and your partner, not you and your multiple lovers having a mass orgy.

Empower/ed/ing: It’s over-used. And often belittling. The organisations who gather together in these monstrous perversions of “partnerships” between more than two entities often use it in their blurb to describe the ordinary bloke or blokette on the street who has had the idea they’re trying to pinch the credit for. They say “they’re empowered by what we’ve been doing here.” My considered response: O rly? It’s the least evil of the four, but I still don’t like it.

Anti-social behaviour: I remain convinced the Blair government invented this. I’d never heard of anti-social behaviour before 1997. And it seems that the problem it claims to describe has grown unstoppably with the popularity of these three little words. I’ve had more conversations than I care to count with local policemen describing large groups of da yoof hanging around in town as “anti-social” with none of them picking up on my heavy sarcasm that gathering together in a group should perhaps be classified as “social behaviour”. Their typical response has been that they’re “frightening the wider community” which da yoof are apparently not included in. And when it gets to the point where the police have powers to make it a criminal offence for someone to stand on a particular stretch of pavement within in a given amount of time, after having previously told to clear orff, you really do wonder what is going on. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if people found that dispersal orders just move “the problem” to another place. As a concept, anti-social behaviour is a load of round objects.

And the whole thing reaches a gloriously awful climax in PACT meetings, which stands for Partnerships And Communities Together. Which I reckon essentially means “Groups of people and some other groups of people come together to form a group. Of people.” They’re meetings when the General Public can come and have a whinge about whatever is on their minds to local bobbies and ultra-local councillors. They’re a stark illustration of just how excluding the word “community” can be. I’m not suggesting this was anyone’s fault, but when I went to PACT meetings regularly in Cardiff, everyone there was over 30. The only representative of anyone younger, apart from me who didn’t count, was a local authority youth worker. Who was coincidentally the only black person in the room.

I’m fighting a War on Language. WOL for short. Who’s with me?

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As you might have noticed, it has been snowing rather a lot lately. From some of the media coverage, you would think this was the end of the world as we know it, but it’s the oldest chestnut in the stable, to the point where it’s practically a horse in a wheelchair, which is wheeled out every time it gets a little bit cold.

We have weather all the time, I can’t be the only one who has noticed this. Weather stories can often feel like lazy journalism. Papers have been filling their pages with heaps of pictures of people playing in the snow. TV stations have been doing the televisual equivalent. It’s easy to do and fills lots of space and time with relative ease, at a time when transport is difficult and journalists, like everyone else, don’t want to get snowed in. I’ll admit it, I’m lucky that I live about two miles from work, but still.

Weather is nothing new. Yes, it’s provided a welcome distraction from the credit crunch and the wildcat strikes, but there are any number of more important things going on out there. I know we don’t get snow very often and that our public infrastructure is supremely bad at coping with it, but this point is made every single time Britain experiences a snow shower. You only have to look at this evening’s Snowmail (Channel 4’s daily e-mail taster of what’s coming up on the evening programme to see that there’s any number of more interesting things happening. Here’s an extract from their list:

  • The row between Britain and America over the determination under all circumstances by the US authorities to keep secret the contents of a torture trial in Britain continues.
  • Lindsey Hilsum is in Tehran tonight as the authorities effectively close down the British Council. The fascinating aspect of this is that they are doing so on the eve of the opening of one of the most important exhibitions about Iran, at the British Museum.
  • There’s a huge row developing over potential bonuses being paid to managers at the Royal Bank of Scotland, the day after Barack Obama capped such payments in America’s nationalised banks. RBS is all but nationalised, and MPs are jumping up and down. Gary Gibbon has the story.
  • We’re also looking at the strange and long-ago death of Dr Haim, the Nazi experimenter and one of the most wanted. I say strange because he died at least 17 years ago, leaving a vast amount of money in a bank account, and the normally reliable Simon Wiesenthal Center was convinced he was still with us. Rags Martel explains all, at seven.

I’m not saying that bad weather can’t generate good stories. But until the bad weather causes something to happen that isn’t exactly the same as “more weather” I personally don’t see it as headline material. The girl who died after sledging into a barbed wire fence. That’s news. But she gets lumped in with updates that there has been more snow. Personally, I think that’s disgraceful. We were talking about the story in our office, even though it’s nowhere near our patch. It’s the kind of terrible event that strikes a chord, irrespective of where you are from. If I were ever in charge (hah!) of a similar story, it wouldn’t get lumped in with a round-up of snow scenes from across the country, that’s for sure.

But maybe I’m just a cynical newbie to this game who doesn’t know what she’s talking about. I’m sure people are actually pretty chuffed that their snow pictures are making it in to the local dailies and on their local newscasts, after all, life’s pretty much stopped because of the weather, right? Let’s try for filming hilarious footage of people falling down icy steps like incompetent penguins. Bread and circuses anyone?

However, the duration of the snowy spell has led to some interesting angles. And this is where I get to be a tiny bit smug. Britain is running out of road salt. We’ve been hearing all week that there was a possibility this snow could keep coming for a while. And perhaps someone working on such things should have enough foresight to think “Hey, maybe getting in some more grit would be a good idea?!” What will be interesting is seeing whether central government will respond to calls from the Local Government Association to take the lead on this to resolve shortages.

Why am I smug? Not because I want our roads to become horrifying, snarled-up death traps that’s for sure. But because, yesterday, I asked Shropshire County Council how much salt they had used, how much they had left and where they were getting it from. In response, I was told they’d used 2,200 tonnes since the beginning of the week, had enough to last the predicted snowfall, but not any more and they wouldn’t be sent any more for the rest of this week. And what was national news this morning? The grit shortage. It’s nice to be ahead of the game.

Is there anybody out there?

This year got off to a better start in blogging terms, I managed to update fairly consistently for a couple of weeks. And then came the am-dram. And the change of job to a town an hour away.
I was in an amateur production of Cinderella for eight shows and started having to commute two hours a day between Ludlow and Shrewsbury. I moved house last weekend but my life is still pretty much contained in boxes that I’m slowly, but surely, unpacking.
There have been several things weighing on my mind lately that I feel deserve some online dissection, but some of them will have to wait a while. I’ll freely admit I’m only writing this entry (and the next one) as an extended form of procrastination. There are so many boxes, it’s rather daunting.

But once everything is unpacked and all the surplus paperwork is thrown out or shredded, I’ll be able to get back to this more regularly. Right, here goes.

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