MEDIA CHASES CHRONIC’S TALE!

CRUMBRIA: 08.08.2025

YANKED away from an unhealthy fixation on obscure planning applications, the Crumbling News follows today where The Cumbria Chronic led on Wednesday with its first proper Council story in MONTHS!

The Carlisle weekly splashes this week on our exclusive about Crumberland Council’s plans to boycott any company connected with Israel.

*Today’s Crumbling News front page splash.*

Somehow, the paper still managed to glaringly gloss over the implications for thousands of members of the county’s Local Government Pension Scheme, who have paid in all their lives.

Hold onto your seat, grandad!

But to be fair, the paper had to make room to accommodate all of the cheering quotes it had secured from applauding Lib Dems, Greens, and Palestine Solidarity campaigners who backed the Council leader’s action.

The boycott story was also followed up by BBC Radio Crumbriashire. It led today’s morning bulletins with it, choosing to run with CN’s more celebratory version.

In short, The Chronic has set today’s news agenda.

Down in Penrith, the Slumberland & Westmoreland Imperilled “newspaper” finally spluttered into life to publish a story today about the public’s reaction to devolution and mayors.

We ran this exclusive 16 days ago, and the results have been available to the weakly broadsheet for THREE weeks.

We’ve been harping on for some time that no other media has drawn attention to the public’s antipathy towards Devo. The Imperilled finally noticed.

We suspect that, because officialdom didn’t send this news directly into the office with a cherry on top, it’s only just been reported now by napping newshounds.

Best Barr None, they call ’emselves!

On Wednesday, dying if not dead, Barrow “newspaper”, the Evening Snail, sluggishly followed our trail.

Our Monday exclusive about the prospect of The Forum and Barrow Market facing demolition by Wokemoreland & Farcical Council, resulted in a story two days later in the Snail – breakneck speed for a news mollusc!

Last night, we were also the FIRST in Crumbria to tell you of Reform UK’s hat-trick in yesterday’s by-elections in Barrow.

Fair play to the Snail, its 13-year-old reporter followed with a story just minutes after midnight. He may now have to go to Bedfordshire early tonight after staying up late.

Cumbria Slack ‘first for breaking news’ and a Best Bar None bedfellow, followed several hours later. No analysis, no context, no commentary. Just a cut & paste results scrape.

Standard!

(BBC Radio Cumbriashire, so quick out of the blocks for a Labour interview, has yet to even notice Reform’s 3-0 win in Barrovia.)

Astonishing, really, that with all the massive resources at their disposal and newsrooms containing centuries of journalistic experience, they’re being beaten by a blog.

For too long, the county media has been on Easy Street. Deciding what it is and isn’t newsworthy and picking and choosing what they tell, and more importantly, DO NOT, tell the Cumbrian public about what’s going on.

That’s the gap we, and before us, Penrith Town.co.uk have filled.

We’ll drop this website/art project when, and only when, paid Churnalists get off their arses and stop acting like there’s only one political viewpoint in town.

We’ll also pack it in when the county media stops treating everything our Councils do and say like it’s the word of God.

Vote for who the frig you like, we don’t care – just don’t be apathetic.

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