So, you’ve a story to tell and it’s not been covered by the local media. You’ve an opinion to express and its too big for twittering and too radical for your Facebook friends.
Maybe it’s time to turn to the Tamar Weekly/EveryMan/Treasury/Scrapbook.
As you see, a name has not yet evolved, a style not yet hatched, and a format not yet formulated even though 13 minds addressed the subject last week at Launceston’s newest meeting house, The Silo, but it was generally agreed that lots of good stories were not making the mainstream media and they needed an outlet.
On-line seems the way to go, at least in the first instance, for local news bigger than an envelope opening or a toilet closing not covered by press, radio or television.
The Tamar Weekly/Everyman/Treasury/Scrapbook is founded on the basis that every person has a story to tell or an opinion to be expressed and many people have expertise in some areas not receiving wider publicity.
The media seems to have missed the match when the Under 23 Mixed Teams Football Competition where Bullamakanka defeated Bandywallop, in the Central Highlands resulting in startling performances, three engagements and a marriage.
Out there, in community land, are people dedicated to attending local government meetings and discovering stories that never made the journey from the council chambers to the public in general.
And on it goes; lots of stories, lots of opinions, lots of literary by-play, all wanting a platform.
Maybe the Tamar Weekly/ EveryMan/Treasury/Scrapbook is the platform.
For what it is worth, “Weekly” is too prescriptive for me; “Everyman” is good but there will be some feminists complaining that it’s sexist; “Scrapbook” sounds a bit itsy-bitsy; I’m for “Treasury” as there are bound to be nuggets of news and literary gold found in it.
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