Wednesday, September 20, 2006

THE NORTH WEST ENQUIRER - THE CURSE OF HENSHAW STRIKES AGAIN...


TWENTY journalists have been made redundant today after the closure of the Henshaw house journal, The North West Enquirer.
None of the journo's will get a penny in redundancy money from Henshaw.
The Dark Knight put a five figure sum (£10 grand? ed) into the new weekly six months ago in the hope that it would buy him a little voice in the media.
(Most serious journalists had got wise to his blackmail, bullying and threats after his adventures in Liverpool and tended to treat his usual bullshit with open contempt, ed).
But the Enquirer failed to take off as Henshaw hoped and poor sales and lack of advertising revenue made it a sure fire failure.
How much Henshaw will lose no-one yet knows. (But we hope it is lots of the dosh he stole from council taxpayers in Liverpool, ed).
More importantly it will be yet another blow to his enormous ego.
After his failures in Liverpool and Capital of Culture, he can now add the Enquirer.
Whither Wicked FM, we wonder?
Meanwhile commiserations to the journalists at the Enquirer - we take no pleasure in its inevitable demise.
It was a weekly newspaper based on a fallacy - that people in Anfield would have the same interests as those in Ardwick.
But some of the journalists were at least trying to write serious, informed stuff - in stark contrast to the disastrous Liverpool Echo.
Henshaw certainly won't be weeping any tears about what will happen to the Enquirer journalists and their families now.
Overall it has been a shocking indictment of the management of the Enquirer (Nick Jaspan, Bob Waterhouse, Henshaw et al.)
It was ill-considered, poorly researched, had wretched deadlines, crap distribution, no marketing, no news sense, and Henshaw toadying columnists (Lew Baxter and Jim Hancock, ed).
Anyone want to start a blog?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

God help the NHS then if Henshaw is in charge of us. Wonder whether we will get any redundancy money out of him?

Tori Blare said...

I've read in the Liverpool Lib-Dems Paper, The Liverpool Echo, that the NHS is to get £20 million from government to update its computer systems.
I wonder who will be getting THAT contract?

Anonymous said...

Why has this man allowed to carry on regardless of all the history of complaints and allegations of corruption?
What is the point of lodging your objections if no-one takes any notice?
What else can we do to get this man brought to justice???
I'm out of ideas!!!

Anonymous said...

Didn't Henshsaw give Lew Baxter some money for some book he was bringing out with the photographer, Guy Woodland? Or did he just order five hundred copies at council taxpayers expense?