Coleman believes that should there be an American version of ‘Angry People in Local Newspapers,’ it would look very different.
“The American press is very different. They’re all trying to win the Pulitzer Prize, whereas British journalists always start with a strong top line, you know, ‘This happened today’. The American press is always, ‘It started off with an innocent trip to the zoo and it ended in tragedy’ — every single one of them does that. You’re down the fourth, fifth, sixth paragraph before you find out what the story is about because they’re too busy telling a ‘story story’ rather than a news story,” he said.
“They don’t tend to have the photography that we do, it’s always a picture of the scene — they don’t tend to go for the personal photography. Canada is a lot like ours, and Australia is like ours, only turned up to eleven.”
