Brum blog lays into Trinity Mirror

It's a rare thing indeed when you get candid assessment of life at a troubled UK newspaper published by the paper itself. So credit the Birmingham Post for having the cojones to carry a blog post on its website that openly addresses the "wall-to-wall misery on the Birmingham Post editorial floor". Or was it late-on-Friday exasperation that led regular freelancer Sid Langley to tell the world about the "wailing, insecurity and, frankly, hatred of parent company Trinity Mirror"? Monkey is particularly impressed with this passage: "There seems to be a reasonable amount of sympathy for editors Marc Reeves and Steve Dyson, currently Post and Mail supremos respectively. One school of opinion casts them as time-serving company men who are just doing what they've been told to do - Steve, in particular is getting some real stick from his bitter and safely anonymous staff commenting on the Mail website. But most people think they are doing their best to be fair and straight in a bloody difficult situation." That should be about enough to keep them off your back, Sid.