Most apt use of FACT on this forum, ever. fact EDIT - What kind of barbarian arsehole would put chip spice on chippy chips anyway?
The whole premise and tenure of the article is "Hull is a wacky slightly naff backwater it's OUR wacky slightly naff backwater", and was probably 'written' by a trainee out of town journo in their twenties.
I moved away from Hull 6 years ago and still as force of habit read HDM online. Its absolute bilge 80% of the time but just every now and then you get to see someone you know get sent down for a petty crime. The best is when some twat you went to school with is standing with their arms folded because their gobshite of a child has been excluded from school for a uniform infringement that they absolutely knew would get pulled up.
It's gone the way of many other provincial dailies and many seem to have an identical template/style. Just feels like ours employs people who are half laughing with us/half laughing at us, in a way that wouldn't be accepted elsewhere, and who have scant knowledge of local life. I would pay good money for a serious local weekly with proper in depth journalism and reporting..
The state of journalism, per se, is ****ing appalling. The distinct lack of criticality and bias is shocking throughout. There's a few, and just a few, I respect.
Like the parents at Kingswood school whose parents deliberately sent their kids with brightly coloured shoe laces and the headmaster sent them home ! He refused to back down and good on him ! Arms folded,pouted lips in disgust ! IQ of about 30
