The Echo seem to be trying to secure its position as a reliable wall of silence. Not content with taking money from Google to help it destroy independent local magazines, it has apparently now started attacking a local college and threatening to sever links with it if it continues to have one of its critics as a student.
As part of her journalism course at Liverpool Community College, Helen Wilke was sent to do 2 days of observation at the Echo. The first day passed off uneventfully, however, the 2nd had hardly gotten started when she was called into the office of the editor Maria Breslin and apparently told that she wasn't welcome.
Not content with this when the College tried to find a way around Helen not completing this essential part of the course. They were allegedly told that the Echo would end its association with the college if Helen remained on the course.
Anyway, read the full details in The Post.
Several people claim to have approached various people & parts of Reach PLC, the Echo's owners and none of the claim to have received a reply. If any company other than the Echo tried this in Liverpool the Echo would be all over the story but not in this case. Neither has the rest of the media said anything, except for the independents.
It looks like the Echo subscription to the Old Boys club is paying off well and the walls of silence in Liverpool are holding up well.
What say you Sally?
