On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:52:37 +0100, Timothy Collinson
<xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:52:37 +0100
>
>[Back in May  I promised to do this but have just found it in my Drafts
>folder when I thought I'd sent it.  If you've seen it before, my
>apologies.  If not, my apologies for the delay and I hope it's helpful.  It
>came out of a discussion about TNS entries being an odd mix of news and
>"trivia".  I was responding that actually they felt exactly right to me as
>they read rather like The Times which is a familiar paper to most UK
>citizens if they don't regularly read it]
>
>
>
>As promised, I went up to our second floor to find some old issues of The
>Times and dig out the Court Circulars.

Whilst the _Court Circulars_ do seem to capture the feel of much of the
TNS, there are a few articles that were longer, and perhaps of more general
interest. A brief digression...

While it's been many years since I worked for a company in the industry,
and thus as many years since reading it, The Wall Street Journal was a
newspaper (broadsheet) oriented toward the financial sector. (It may still
be, or it may have morphed somewhat toward a general news broadsheet with a
politically conservative (US definition) bias.)

At the time I was reading it regularly, there was a box, about two columns
(of a six-column format), above the fold, with a title of "What's News".
This box had short summaries of what was going on outside the financial
industry that was newsworthy, usually the sorts of stories that, in much
expanded form, would appear in International/World or National sections of
general news broadsheets such as The New York Times, Boston Globe, or
Washington Post.

An example, from 9 November 1988:

    Polish workers defied Walesa and staged strikes at two shipyards.
    Several hundred workers went on strike at two plants in Gdansk
  to protest the Warsaw government's planned closing of the big Lenin
  shipyard, birthplace of Solidarity. They defied an appeal by Walesa
  to return to work. The strikers at the two smaller shipyards, calling
  their action "a warning," also said they had waited long enough for
  Polish authorities to begin promised talks to consider the banned
  trade union's future.
    /Walesa indicated he would meet with authorities before the
     Lenin shipyard question is resolved, and threatened to quit
     as union leader if strikes spread./

Looks a heck of a lot like a longer TNS article, yes? :)

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