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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36706591Residents of an Oxfordshire village have been baffled by the weekly appearance of "coach loads" of tourists in their road.
Groups of sightseers in Benmead Road, Kidlington, have been seen posing for photos in front gardens and against parked cars.
Locals have no idea why the quiet suburb, about five miles north of Oxford, has become a tourist magnet.
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« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2016, 20:49:04 » |
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I wonder if its been the feature of a television program. But then surely the residents would of known.
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« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2016, 20:53:21 » |
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Lewis maybe or even Morse ?.
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patch38
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« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2016, 21:15:33 » |
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Some sort of Endeavour...
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« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2016, 23:14:42 » |
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The Olympic Torch passed by the end of Benmead Road in 2012 - see this video on Youtube. And tell me if you see any famous oriental athletes, because I don't. |
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2016, 05:15:45 » |
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Ben Mead was Shakespeare's great uncle once removed.
And Kid Ling Ton was a renowned japanese playwright.
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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2016, 09:04:59 » |
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And Kid Ling Ton was a renowned japanese playwright.
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Also a Thai soup ...  I wonder if anyone has asked the visitors why they're making for that street ... |
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2016, 09:15:32 » |
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I wonder if anyone has asked the visitors why they're making for that street ...
Precisely. Isn't the job of a journalist to investigate things? Hardly like this would be an expensive or dangerous assignment. |
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« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2016, 10:44:03 » |
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Yes but that would involve going to site and having to do some work. Why bother to do that when you can trawl a few photos and comments from social media, string a tenuous story together and then get on with playing Angry Birds?
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« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2016, 13:32:50 » |
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Yes but that would involve going to site and having to do some work. Why bother to do that when you can trawl a few photos and comments from social media, string a tenuous story together and then get on with playing Angry Birds?
Slightly unfair. The economics of local newspapers is now such that they can afford very few Journalists so they do not have the time to go and stand out and wait for a bus load of tourists who might come only once every few days or weeks. Local offices are being closed and Journalists work from home covering large areas visiting regional offices only occasionally. |
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« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2016, 14:38:07 » |
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OK, I'll take the rap for the generalisation; but it was meant to be slightly tongue-in-cheek. However, in my opinion, there's still way too much sloppy journalism around and too much relienace on social media feeds and the dreaded Wikipedia rather than taking time for serious research which was, I think, the nub of Tim's point. Anyway, wasn't the original news story from the Beeb, rather than a local newspaper? That's even more worrying!
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« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2016, 15:09:59 » |
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Yes but that would involve going to site and having to do some work. Why bother to do that when you can trawl a few photos and comments from social media, string a tenuous story together and then get on with playing Angry Birds?
Slightly unfair. The economics of local newspapers is now such that they can afford very few Journalists so they do not have the time to go and stand out and wait for a bus load of tourists who might come only once every few days or weeks. Local offices are being closed and Journalists work from home covering large areas visiting regional offices only occasionally. This is the BBC» . They ought to have the resources to investigate properly. Or if they decide that it isn't worth sending someone out for, the judgement to run a different story. |
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« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2016, 15:48:23 » |
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OK, I'll take the rap for the generalisation; but it was meant to be slightly tongue-in-cheek. However, in my opinion, there's still way too much sloppy journalism around and too much relienace on social media feeds and the dreaded Wikipedia rather than taking time for serious research which was, I think, the nub of Tim's point. Anyway, wasn't the original news story from the Beeb, rather than a local newspaper? That's even more worrying!
I didn't say it wasn't sloppy Journalism, just saying why we are getting sloppy Journalism. This is the sort of story that local papers would have got to the bottom of in the past. |
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« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2016, 21:06:33 » |
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I have to say, if there was a steady stream of people taking pictures outside/near my home I might be tempted to ask them why myself rather than waiting for the media to tell me. But then I am a journalist by training....
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« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2016, 21:32:27 » |
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I'm also rather surprised that there hasn't been a steady stream of people turning up outside bobm's house, just to take a picture of his front door. But I'm not a journalist.   |
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