Though I wish it would be dropped and faded into the archives, it’s got legs! We’re still on about “postcardgate,” but the trivia sometimes becomes the nitty-gritty when the persnickety board the good train Facebook with their vitriolic trollop. Yet Newquest joined the party, and seems to have got off unscathed; funny that….
Here we go; all I said last week was that a digital postcard Devizes Town Council sent to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport could’ve, perhaps, been worded better.
Like a steam train gathering pace in a heatwave they queued online, to condemn me for my minor constructive criticism. Tell me over and over again, posting videos and filling our comments section, that it was only a “bit of fun” and not a bid for the Town of Culture Award; okay, are you going for the Town Crier vacancy? I hear yee!
Telling me to “get my facts right,” when its source, an official post from Devizes Town Council clearly stating it WAS a bid for the Town of Culture Award, apparently it wasn’t, despite them saying it was. Who am I supposed to believe here, Devizes Town Council or Devizes Town Council? Maybe, just maybe, Devizes Town Council knows!
I get messages from Devizes Town Councillors, clearing their names, telling me it wasn’t something approved by them; fair enough. So I run a half-apology update, though standing my ground for calling out the postcard’s wording. Still the negative comments flood in. The most ironic part to all this is, the award for the most negative comment I bequeath to one person, who kindly negatively commented she’s not following us any more over all the negative comments with the most negative comment of all, then declared they didn’t actually read it, so was completely unaware of how negative it was, or wasn’t; see, I told you this story has legs!
Now, I would’ve buried this with those knowing birds flying high and the sun in the sky, for it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day. But now, what really gets my goat up and fleeing from its pen, is that Newquest reporter Jason Hughes picks this story up. He gallantly goes with exactly the same assumption as me, that because Devizes Town Council officially announced on its Facebook page that the postcard was a bid for the Town of Culture Award, that the postcard was a bid for the Town of Culture Award, publishes a Gazette & Herald article about it, and no one, not a single body has commented how evil they are for making the same, apparent journalistic error!
Way to go to condemn a nonprofit blogger for simply pledging we all get behind this and work together to make it better, but suggest to the historic newspaper a similar complaint? Not on your Nelly! We can’t have that!
Their hypocrisy is so pathetic it fills me with despair that the “steering group” are the insular do-gooders mounting this campaign against me, and they’re the same ones going for a “Town of Culture” award; do they have a dictionary to hand?!
“No, you can’t get involved now, because you didn’t attend the meeting,” they’ve said; but some of us have to work for a living. I’m only here for the biscuit crumbs. Who wants to forage the bottom of the biscuit barrel with me, or who wants to snatch them back?
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