We’ve been chasing up a story that would have made a great page 1 in the Manx Independent. It still might.
We discovered that Home Affairs Minister Juan Watterson MHK had disgraced himself on a bus journey after a night out.
He’d had one - or two - too many.
So we chased him up for a comment. We wouldn’t like to run stories without such things.
Sometimes that can backfire on us, though.
Unfortunately, he supplied a comment to the whole media. Whether other media outlets were chasing it up, I don’t know.
We like, of course, to have exclusive stories on the front page. But, by the time the Manx Independent hits the shops on Thursday afternoon the story will be 24 hours old.
No doubt it will lead the news on the wireless this afternoon. We’re putting in online ourselves.
We’ll just have to follow it up for the Independent and get good reaction etc to it.
I’m sure it will be a big talking point over Christmas.