Bullshit: Why you need to be covering council meetings
Posted: June 22nd, 2010 | Author: Ed Walker | Filed under: Journalism | Tags: council reporting, councillors, frontpages, licensing, sainsbury's | 3 Comments »Council proceedings are not always the most exciting of meetings. Operational plans, bar charts and lots of polite beating around the bush. But sometimes, just sometimes, you’ll get a cracker like the one below. Remember, the Council is not just a faceless organisation – it has elected members and sometimes they will speak their minds. If you’re not there you can be sure the official minutes won’t make a note of it. But maybe what I’ve just said is complete and utter bullshit.
Here’s the full story as the former Lord Mayor cranks up the heat on supermarket giant Sainsbury’s
Got any Council meeting crackers? What is the juiciest economic and culture scrutiny committee you’ve covered? Let me know below.
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[...] Ed Walker is a 24-year-old journalist working for Media Wales in Cardiff. He also runs a local news site in Preston, Lancashire called Blog Preston where he graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire in 2007. This post originally appeared on edwalker.net [...]
[...] Ed Walker is a 24-year-old journalist working for Media Wales in Cardiff. He also runs a local news site in Preston, Lancashire called Blog Preston where he graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire in 2007. He was editor of the student media at the University of Central Lancashire in the 2007-2008 academic year. Before this he was Digital Editor, Assistant Editor and a reporter for Pluto the student newspaper at UCLan. This post originally appeared on edwalker.net [...]