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# Why we need the hyperlocals
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/11/why_we_need_the_hyperlocals/
- Published: 2013-11-18T08:24:36.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:05:57.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: greenwich, hyper-local, Journalism, Local News

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> Greenwich Council has finally come clean and admitted its weekly newspaper, Greenwich Time, is signed off by leader Chris Roberts… “to ensure political neutrality and to protect the borough’s reputation”.

Council-run newspapers and magazines are not journalism, they’re propaganda. They *will not* fill the gap left by failing local publisher business models. This is why the hyperlocal movement — for all its struggles and false starts — is so important.