The sewer press 261
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So, this appeared in the Herald today:
And that’s a problem, because it’s a complete and utter lie.
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Meet the new year, same as the old year 94
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As politics wakes up from the holidays, any readers still bothering to gaze at the pages of the Scottish media could be forgiven for a crushing sense of deja vu.
In more senses than one.
Towards a better, kinder 2016 343
Posted on
January 03, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Herald columnist Iain Macwhirter has had some wise words to say on the subject of social media in the past few weeks, most recently on New Year’s Day:
The month before, though, he’d been even more to the point.
Answers without words 167
Posted on
January 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We tweeted this proposition last night (the quote comes from a blog post yesterday by Scottish Labour madcase and all-round comedy relief Ian Smart):
We thought you might enjoy some of the responses as much as we did.
The media they don’t like to talk about 229
Posted on
December 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Below is a very interesting 13-minute chat from this afternoon’s John Beattie Show on Radio Scotland, also featuring Stuart Cosgrove (presenter of the excellent footy prog Off The Ball) and Eamonn O’Neill, who we presume is this Eamonn O’Neill.
(The John Beattie Show, BBC Radio Scotland, 31 December 2015)
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Naturally we like it because there’s mention of Wings, which – for just about the first time we can recall on broadcast media in our four-year life – isn’t about how vile and awful we are, but the whole thing is much more wide-ranging and well worth a listen.
(The line “The media the media doesn’t like to talk about” is Beattie’s, not ours.)
The anatomy of a smear 138
Posted on
December 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Daily Mail, which alongside its Sunday sister paper is spending the festive period engaged in an “SNP BAD!” frenzy – attacking the party over everything from foxhunting to the brutal Stalinist suppression of free speech to using taxpayers’ money to send people Christmas cards – today runs the same story across a news page, a comment column and an editorial leader:
Let’s take a closer look.
BREAKING NEWS 126
Posted on
December 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Bad wolf baying 268
Posted on
December 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Christmas truce on social media ended unusually early this year as Magnus Gardham, the political editor of the Herald, filed a column which had all the hallmarks of a man who’d overdone the sprouts and redirected the usual outcome of such an error out of his mouth rather than the other end of his digestive tract.
Backed up with a series of borderline-trolling tweets from his Herald colleague David Leask (who ambitiously referred to Gardham as a “genius”), the piece triggered a mild stushie on Twitter which we fully expect to see written up in tomorrow’s papers as “VILE CYBERNATS IN ABUSE STORM”, because it’s Christmas and you’ve got to fill pages with something.
Tidings of comfort and joy 98
Posted on
December 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotland’s two best-selling newspapers on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day:
We suppose we should just be grateful that they don’t publish on the day itself. The “STARVING REFUGEE BABIES RAPED BY AIDS DOGS” story* they’d doubtless lead with might put people off their turkey.
All the lights are coming on now 140
Posted on
December 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Have a good one, readers.
To the bitter end 309
Posted on
December 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This was a brief exchange between the Scotland correspondent of the Guardian and the Political Editor of the Daily Record on Twitter last night. (The hug referred to is the one between Nicola Sturgeon, Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru and Natalie Bennett of the Greens at one of the leaders’ debates for the May general election.)
A little vision of the future, there.
Another blow for Sturgeon 331
Posted on
December 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As SNP forecasting incompetence sees Forth Road Bridge re-open two weeks ahead of schedule, throwing holiday travel plans into chaos for thousands.
Many questions to answer.
