Letter published in the Carmarthen Journal last week
Had a letter published in the Carmarthen Journal last week re the continuing debate about Carmarthenshire News - the county council and local service board's regular newsletter. Not all of it made it into print. Here is the 'unedited' version - It was interesting to read the ‘War of Words’ story about the costs of Carmarthenshire County Council’s Carmarthenshire News ‘news-sheet’on Page 9 of the Journal (August 22). My eyebrows went up higher than a Roger Moore impersonator when I read that the council had not retained all back editions for the last five years – and it hadn’t recorded the cost of individual adverts. Perhaps this is an indication of the manner in which the council has used the newsletter as a ‘toy train-set plaything’. Having some experience of running newspapers and newsletters, I know that in the ‘real world’ of newspaper budgets it was always considered proper to keep records of such matters. Like Carmarthen East and Dinefwr AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas, I a...