A new Isle of Wight satire Website has popped up, Isle of Wight Candy Press.
They’ve based themselves at a Web address that might seen vaguely familiar – iwcp.net. Their logo might also ring a bell – not quite sure why.
Among the reasons they give for starting it include, “We don’t believe that the monopoly the County Press has on Island readers is healthy, and like any media outlet there is an inherent self serving bias that cannot be ignored.”
So far they’ve taken a few of the stories that have floated around the Island and written their own humourous take on them. A late example being, “Island CSO’s Get More Powers – None Super”.
It opens with “Island Community Support Officers (CSO’s) have been given greater powers by the Island Council almighty this week, in order to further assist them in taming the Islands mean streets.”
The actual ‘news’ came through as a press release from the Council press office that pointed out that CSOs would now be able to issue £30 fines to people who cycled on the footpath.
There’s a long tradition of publications on the Island poking fun at the newspaper monopoly that is the County Press.
Remember PoW?
Back in 2000, as part of PoW magazine, published by Simon Kefford and laid out by Nigel Bulloch, there was a section called “Desperate Times”.
Laid out in the familiar traditional newspaper format, the sample headlines from the first issue (June 200) included, “Does Bouldnor exist”; “Police launch massive search for missing pen lid”; Car mounts pavement whist parking in Shanklin and “Newport to be flooded soon”, the last one being well down the page.
Click on image for larger version
