Huw Lewis provides a refreshing example of a politician thinking outside the box with his suggestion of “a series of ‘super local’ television and radio channels run by newspapers in Wales”.
His un-costed proposal is designed to arrest the decline of provincial newspapers, such as the Evening Post where staff have been hit by further job losses – although his own list of “flagship” papers suggests a hint of geographic bias along with a limited grasp of current circulation figures.
No doubt critics will point out that regulatory requirements alone mean that it cannot all just happen with “a dozen start-up grants for this kind of modern news service" or without the co-operation of an industry firmly geared towards market dominance and preferably a monopoly. (A viewed shared elsewhere).
But the idea will nonetheless win him some publicity and even a few friends among journalists – for the time being.
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