Painting with Numbers

The Euro Weekly news asks 'Do you have News for us?' I am not sure that this is a very good idea to admit - as it does - that their lack of useful content has even come to the attention of the editorial chair. The local news from Spain comes to way under half of their stories. Maybe the editor needs to monitor the Spanish news more closely.

And who, by the way, is the editor? It doesn't say anything in my copy.

The 'People's Paper' as it is known (by absolutely nobody) is not much better with numbers.

  The free-sheet claims that it has been providing 'news and views since 1998'. An odd claim since the first edition of this woeful rag appeared in April 2002. 

Even more peculiar, counting back the number of weeks from today's issue Nº 1924 brings us not to the first edition of April 2002, and indeed not even to any date from 1998, when those news and views began; but back all the way to 1985. 

The answer is that The People's Paper is based on an earlier newspaper called The Entertainer. A weekly newspaper in three editions that ran from 1985 to 2002; a tabloid which appears to have been airbrushed from history.