So, there I am happily "Tweeting" away when I get a direct message: Hi this is --- from KOS News, do you want to do a Question and Answers interview for the paper on who you are, and what you do? Blimey, yes please that seems like a "no brainer". So the questions were emailed over and I supplied the answers. (Q&As) The immediate reaction was that it reads well and the piece will go in 2-3 weeks time. Great, that sounds encouraging I thought. Time went by and it was beginning to seem that something was not going as planned. A few emails later, and I eventually get to the bottom of what was going on:
The piece was about to be finalized and ready to go to press when a "Boss" saw the article. The reaction, put in a simplistic way; was to stop the article from going to press, because when a similar article was printed in the past, high street estate agents boycotted the paper. Therefore we cannot be seen to be promoting the "other way" of selling houses. Which begs the question, who runs their paper? Not only that, but can the high street agents really be that scared of a small operation like mine? if so, then it only encourages me further to continue on the road that I have started.
It would seem that local papers have become high street estate agents magazines. What ever happened to the freedom of the press?
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