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# News Values vrs Personal Experience
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/04/news_values_vrs_personal_experience/
- Published: 2010-04-21T19:21:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:49:22.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalism, national newspapers

On Sunday, I should have been flying back from a conference in Portugal. Instead, I spent the day with an American friend trapped in London. We helped a German family find their way to Waterloo for a trip to the channel ports.

People were marvelling at the plane-free skies, and discussing the long-term implications of the crisis.

And what were the Sunday newspapers reporting? \[Friday’s news\](http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/2010/04/18/the-sunday-madness-british-sunday-newspapers-from-another-world/).

When the journalistic radar is so detached from the mainstream experience, it’s no wonder that we’re going through a rough patch as a profession…