Passenger
An early incarnation of what was later to become the early incarnation of what was to become KTAB News, Passenger was a newspaper done by JTA during his GCSE Design Technology lessons, and which ran for a record-breaking fifty-two issues, over a period of a year and a bit, averaging one issue per week. JTA later attributed the sucess of Passenger (in contrast to that of his other newspapers, such as The Kempton and Manderley Times) to the fact that he based the events around which the papers revolve on things actually happening to he and his friends at the time.Thus, rather than dying an early death because JTA had run out of inspiration, Passenger went on to become the longest-running newspaper in the history of The Statto-JTA Publishing Corporation, and developed a complicated world of political complexity and betrayal which even extended as far as the JTA creating a set of Government Papers, based on the events portrayed in Newpschland and the UJSR, the parody-of-GCSE-History-world in which the papers themselves were set.
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Following the collapse of President Mead’s uprising, and JTA’s restoration to power, Passenger slowly wound down, producing fewer editions, and coming more and more sporadically, as JTA realised that his AS-levels were looming, and he might have to sit down and do some of his exams, at some point. Presently, he was proved right, and found, afterwards, that he no longer wanted to continue the tale told by the paper, with the result that Passenger produced what was to be its final issue, and then went away.
Passenger within KTAB News
For a brief period at the start of the existence of KTAB News Statto and JTA produced KTAB News as an online, satirical newspaper, under the old “Passenger” name, but now set in this world, and with all references to its old incarnation dropped. Presently, this format was also abandoned, and Passenger was finally laid to rest, archived, and remembered fondly ever after, except by people who forgot about it, or never really cared to begin with.