“Thousands” visit arts and crafts market
Thousands?
I was there at mid morning in the marquee erected in South Shields Market Place, I saw nobody recording or counting numbers coming or going. How did they calculate that 3500 people visited?
Should I show some pictures of the thousands that I plainly and imaginatively saw?
Should I show you the bored stall holders sitting glumly behind their tables?
Were you there, were you one of the thousands who bought “distinctive goods made by talented artists and craftspeople from around the region”?
I am now awaiting the announcement that last weekend’s Continental Market was a massive success, when clearly it was not.
Is this news management and spin of the worst type?
Update
take a look for yourselves, click thumbnails to enlarge
Update Thursday 30th. April
Just spoke to lady who had a stall in this marquee, said she saw a council employee with hand held ‘clicker counter’, she reckons the decimal place must have been accidentally moved, she doubts whether she saw 350 visitors all day!
Can someone tell us the truth, was this market a massive success or not?
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