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Is The Birmingham Post's Coverage of Politics Lousy?

Sunday, 10 August 2008 14:50 Written by Jonathan Walker

My post about the Sprout widget-builder, and the demo widget I have created for this site, received an interesting response from Clifford, who said:

Not directly on the point but looking through the news items in the widget I was struck by how few of them really relate to Birmingham. I think that there is an interesting discussion to be had around why the Birmingham Post's coverage of Birmingham Politics is so poor. For example - is every significant committee meeting covered? Is there regular use of the FOIA? Paul Dale can't do everything.

I don't know how to answer that, to be honest. Is the Post's coverage of politics poor? What do you think?

If you have any thoughts, please feel free to post them to the discussion already in progress.