Paper Monitor
12:43 UK time, Friday, 25 November 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily weekly press.
Paper Monitor has more than a passing acquaintance with the Liverpool Daily Post.
Like hearing something unpleasant has happened to an old friend, it was sad to see the news that it was to go weekly after more than 150 years of quotidian excrescence.
"Go weekly" does not mean the same as "die", but still this is a time for mourning, despite the promise that the new "Liverpool Post" will be "bumper".
It is not the first Post to lose its Daily. The Birmingham Post went weekly in 2009.
Like writing for a Sunday newspaper, thinking of stories for a weekly is rather difficult. If you print on Monday night and your area's most famous person is eaten by a space goat early on Tuesday morning you've got a whole week of your paper looking faintly ridiculous.
Also there is the question of local newspaper hierarchy. In local scribe world, "daily people" can get a bit sniffy about "weekly people". In turn "weekly people" on paid-for titles look down on "weekly people" on freesheets.
But at this time of unprecedented pain for local newspapers, perhaps one should emphasise the positives and note that "evening" papers, like the Liverpool Echo, are still going.
Some ridicule their diet of superannuated local celebs and "flyer" business stories with optimistic claims of opulent redevelopment.
Paper Monitor's own favourite Daily Post flyer was a story suggesting that Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama might attend Liverpool's millennium celebrations. Strangely, neither managed to make it on the big day.
But daily local newspapers are a good thing.
When ordinary people have no-one left to fight for them, the local reporter picks up their phone and gets to work.
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