Clickbait corner 68
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s always good to see someone take a strong moral stand.
When indeed, eh?
Archive for the ‘comment’
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shocking incredible news 298
Posted on
December 21, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Telling voters they’re morons and robots rather surprisingly hasn’t worked.
We suspect the opposition parties will give it a few more years just to be sure.
An end to the matter 207
Posted on
December 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Remarkably, it seems some angry Unionists are still trying to dispute the known facts surrounding the Forth Road Bridge closure. We’d like to think this quote from today’s Central Fife Times – from Tony Martin, the man who was convenor of the authority managing the bridge until a few months ago – was unambiguous enough to settle it once and for all.
That’s from the man who ought to know more about it than any human alive, and who as a Lib Dem councillor has no reason to make excuses for the Scottish Government.
It’s over, angry Unionists. Deal with it.
