Fat Andy, you may be closer to the truth than you think with your comment "a person who blindly cuts and pastes copy from third parties and tries to pass it off as news" - I knew regional journalists for national papers who listened to local radio for items that they blindly reported to their head office. With the availability of the internet, journalists, or 'stringers', rarely visit the scene. I knew one free lance journalist who lived, worked and never ventured from deepest Pembrokeshire but wrote convincingly on articles with locations all over the U.K.
On another note, are there any reports from the Conwy Food Festival? I was away for the weekend but returned yesterday afternoon to find traffic queuing off the A55 to cross the cob and many vehicles parked in Deganwy... It appears that the park and ride might not have been that popular!