A story

I grew up in a town in Essex (yes, I'm an "Essex Boy"). There were around 30,000 people living there. There were two "free" news papers; the Yellow Advertiser, and The Standard Recorder. Y'know the sort of paper; mostly supported by advertising and with a free classifieds ads section (for cheap stuff). There was a small amount of "local news", some editorial and some unique content. The two papers were in competition, naturally.



More recently, in an aim to be more relevant and up-to-date, they both started a "video games review" section. Things were going OK until one of the papers accused the other of plagarism in this section. It actually caused a bit of fun as each paper accused the other of bad faith.



Things came to head a few weeks back; apparently the writers of each column were in the same pub at the same time and things escalated to violence. It got so bad that the police got called to break it up.



The police report claimed it was about Video Game Journalism in Essex.