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	The local newspaper featured in the Johnny Maxwell series is the Blackbury Guardian, one of those slightly desperate local newspapers where the staff journalists are either on the way up and hungering for the moment they get noticed by one of the big nationals, or on the way down and somewhat cynical, or like [[Jeremy the Thumb]] are hampered by a basic lack of journalistic or photographic talent, and incapable of getting any further. And all three categories of journalists are equally desperate for some proper news, maybe a major plane crash, or a terrorist outrage, or an outbreak of infectious disease. Anything to break the monotonous diet of weddings, funerals, court appearances and Super Bingo winners.		The local newspaper featured in the Johnny Maxwell series is the '''Blackbury Guardian''', one of those slightly desperate local newspapers where the staff journalists are either on the way up and hungering for the moment they get noticed by one of the big nationals, or on the way down and somewhat cynical, or like [[Jeremy the Thumb]] are hampered by a basic lack of journalistic or photographic talent, and incapable of getting any further. And all three categories of journalists are equally desperate for some proper news, maybe a major plane crash, or a terrorist outrage, or an outbreak of infectious disease. Anything to break the monotonous diet of weddings, funerals, court appearances and Super Bingo winners.

	The first books of the [[Bromeliad]] series are set in the same [[Blackbury]]/[[Grimethorpe]]/Newtown conurbation, and here, the ''Blackbury Evening Post and Gazette'' is said to be the only newspaper in town.		The first books of the [[Bromeliad]] series are set in the same [[Blackbury]]/[[Grimethorpe]]/Newtown conurbation, and here, the ''Blackbury Evening Post and Gazette'' is said to be the only newspaper in town.

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The local newspaper featured in the Johnny Maxwell series is the Blackbury Guardian, one of those slightly desperate local newspapers where the staff journalists are either on the way up and hungering for the moment they get noticed by one of the big nationals, or on the way down and somewhat cynical, or like [[Jeremy the Thumb]] are hampered by a basic lack of journalistic or photographic talent, and incapable of getting any further. And all three categories of journalists are equally desperate for some proper news, maybe a major plane crash, or a terrorist outrage, or an outbreak of infectious disease. Anything to break the monotonous diet of weddings, funerals, court appearances and Super Bingo winners.

The first books of the [[Bromeliad]] series are set in the same [[Blackbury]]/[[Grimethorpe]]/Newtown conurbation, and here, the ''Blackbury Evening Post and Gazette'' is said to be the only newspaper in town.

It is possible that the Guardian is a weekly local newspaper and the Gazette is the evening daily, which would resolve an apparent continuity error. (As illustration, in South Manchester the '''Manchester Evening News''' is the daily afternoon/evening paper, while the Express Group titles, ie the '''Stockport Express''', are the weekly local publications)

The local newspapers appear in {{JatD}} and {{JatB}}.

==Annotation==
Terry Pratchett makes no secret of the fact that his first job was in local newspaper reporting. He is perchance describing that which he knows only too well here...

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