iCambria - The Blog of Wales

The absence of any coverage ( except 1 photograph of the figure of St David with a strange caption in Wales on Sunday) by your newspaper of the massive and joyous National St David’s Day Parade last Saturday through the streets of Cardiff and ending up at the Senedd in the bay, must rate as one of the most blatant pieces of media spin ever to befall this Nation of ours. Add to that your bogus claim to be “The National Newspaper of Wales” and there is a certain lack of credibility starting to creep into your ever declining readership.

That almost 8,000 people walked to the sounds of Brass Bands, Scottish Pipe Bands, Welsh Pipers, Drum Bands and two Breton Bagads (pipes and drums), one from Cardiff’s twinned city of Nantes, who played to the thousands of well wishers and shoppers who lined the streets and completely filled St Mary’s Street ( that’s the one next to your offices) and went completely unnoticed by any of your reporters is unbelievable. Especially as the Rt. Hon.The Lord Mayor of Cardiff led an array of dignitaries including some 40 Town Mayors from all over Wales and the Presiding Officer for the Assembly Government, Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas, who delivered an astounding speech to the assembled Paraders outside the Senedd at the end of the Parade.

Your small notice given to readers to assemble at Sophia Close at 3:0 pm was misleading and on it’s own could be construed as a mistake, but in the light of your total avoidance of any coverage can only mean that you have another agenda. One that clearly is not shared by the 8,000 people who did join the Parade.

It is not too late to address this faux pas completely, a series of coloured photographs showing just what a spectacle it was, along with an article mentioning how important this show of National pride is for the Nation of Wales would go some way to redressing the balance of what actually went on in Cardiff, the National City of Wales, on our Patron Saint’s Day.

Your readers deserve nothing less.